Forum Post: “60% of the rich want to be taxed more!”

I would like to believe that but the statement conflicts with the reality. The political machinery that controls our government is owned by the 0.1% who own almost everything or hold the mortgages. If they wanted the economy to be revived with such a restart, it would be happening already!

Piketty’s Wealth Tax is Real, and It Works

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Yves Smith

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/pikettys-wealth-tax-real-works.html

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Charles Hugh Smith

The real problem with Piketty’s taxation/social welfare solution to wealth inequality is that it

does nothing to change the source of systemic inequality, debt-based neofeudalism and

neocolonialism.

Read more at

http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/04/a-critique-of-pikettys-solution-to-widening-wealth-inequality/#HW1Toj8EuTZGGAd8.99

Enlightening Lament

You want to pick my brain and think you can get it all together that way.

The puzzle can't be built until you have all the pieces.

I try to give them to you but you fight me on each offering

That you think you pick apart by your childlike internalized standards.

That proves to me that you just aren't ripe and maybe never

Will be because you've convinced yourself that you're already there.

At the rate you progress, given your self/other imposed handicaps,

You'll fall further behind with each passing day.