Just The Facts

On Being Rich

OK, I made some posts on another article that would fit nicely here. But I won't bother to repeat them.


Let's put it this way. What this country needs is two things:


First, it needs to extend the mandatory tax withholding of 6.8 percent (or is it 8.6 percent?) for Social Security and Medicare to every American, of all income levels. Forget the "income tax", since it is only a tiny fraction of what most Americans ultimately pay. Let EVERYONE get 15 percent whacked off the top of every dollar they earn --- no questions asked or exemptions granted --- and I suspect the concept of "taxes" would take on a totally different argument within our society.


And secondly, everyone living or working in Washington DC as a politician and calling themselves a "public servant" should be required to be randomly adopted by a "real" average American family. Drawn randomly, by lot. And to live with them for at least 3 months, before they went to Washington and tried to pass laws in the name of the "public" good.


Those two minor changes would fix most of our problems, I'm guessing ....


:)