Btw, I do happen to know *exactly* what Sergey and Larry’s salaries are. One dollar each, look it up. They make their money (billions) from capital gains, which results in a lower relative tax rate when compared to their salaried employees.
You are again making the assumption that the super-wealthy are somehow *blessed* and deserving of extra-special bennies above and beyond already being super-rich.
Larry and Sergey are nothing special. They are in my peer group, in fact. I’ve known thousands of engineers exactly like them. They owe their success to a *tremendous* amount of luck as much as their innovation and hard work; Google would have gone under during the dotcom bust if it wasn’t for angel funding, for example.
Anyways, my point, in a nutshell, is we should all be taxed fairly and progressively; relative to our real income. Both ditch-diggers and day-traders alike. And re: healthcare, no disagreement there. I’m all for a nationwide sales tax to fund socialized healthcare, with the excises determined by the relative harm of the product. I have no problem with cigarettes and sugary sodas costing 10-20 times as much.
