"They are also needed to overcome widening inequality, and thereby keep America in one piece "

i think you got the man by his soul there

a brutishly class cloven national society
can be harmonized into
one big joyous human chorus

der booby zockzer reich

"By my calculation, a tiny annual wealth tax of one-tenth of 1 percent on all net worth exceeding $5 million -- a tax that would affect only 50,000 households, or fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of the nation's taxpayers -- would yield an additional $100 billion."

go go bobby
follow the yellow brick road

"The accumulated national debt will be in shouting distance of the $10 trillion mark"

this fact floating around in dumbos head
is anchored to a sky hook

the high water mark of gdp to national debt
came ...in the raging 40's
a fact rarely discussed
why ??

mayhaps because
of its all to evident implications

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | February 14, 2008 at 09:01 AM

paine says...
rusty

"A "wealth tax" would be a compliance nightmare "

aimed at 50k households ???

bring it on baby

rusty
think of the raids man

you account types
eliot ness work

issued side arms
ninja outfits

chopper drops at midnite
on to
daddy warbucks mansion estate

plaster the headlines with the dead beats
the tales might create
a little progressive lessoning
for rage radio