I saw that!

-You're going to pass laws on all this stuff? Based on what moral or ethical principles, exactly?- heh, we already have, I just don't think they are very good.

Do you think this is a moral question? Well maybe, I don't think our economic system in this country is just. Will it ever be complete and consistant.. Math......Justice...? I don't think so, but that doesn't mean I'm just happy with how things are.

Laws exist on almost all this stuff, on what authority, if you like, were they founded on? I would think we would be able to found new ones on either that authority or invent a better authority. I haven't really said what I would do. I could do that somewhat now.

I am generally for a flat tax. I am generally for the abolishment of business taxes, and thereby their right to political speech. I am for the removal off all tax credits. I like a straight flat tax. I think the number would have to be studied. 15% is commonly talked about. I am against any form of double taxation. If your parents get 100k and pay the taxes on it then they should be able to give it to whomever they want. The recipient should not have to pay taxes on it. So I am for the ending of inheritance taxe, death tax whatever, marriage and child credits. I think that when we stop taxing business, we should continue to use tariffs and excise taxes as political tools internationally.

----But I support having a class of people who are obscenely rich. Why? Because big projects take big money, and the world's ills require big projects to solve. Manhattan, Apollo project-size in scope.----

Those were government projects, silly. A point is big government projects, are in fact paid for more by the poor, than by the rich. Especially the rich who inherited their wealth, who pay for nothing. The rich tend to avoid taxes. Sure, Gates is doing some good things. He got some of that money because Microsoft uses a lot of underpaid engineers. Microsoft also is a near monopoly, and should have had it's corporate charter dissolved.

---think that Steve's exactly right: adding new legislation will create a ton of new lawsuits and people who can successfully 'game' the system. That's how some stockbrokers, accountants, and lawyers do so well- they game the system, exploiting loopholes---

That's the problem with our current system. I like a flat tax because there would be no gaming.

--It's easy to imagine that, despite salary caps, people could have more than one job. Or hire friends and family to pick up extra paychecks. Or just receive lots of great expensive 'gifts'.---

Flat tax. I'm against personally limiting wages. I think that freedom, in a sense, should prevail. I do think that it's bad corporate governance to have large pay disparities within a company, that can hardly be justified at all.

I'm not going to get mad, about what you removed from your post. I read it and you're not the first person to say that to me. I don't think what a lot of people spend their time doing is important either. I did post on the main board BTW. I think it's funny when people are socialists or even communists when it comes to how the government should treat them, just not other people. Universities should be helped by the state, government should fund research and hand away patents to corporations. Rob and Mark want grants that essentially I pay for. They don't pay for it because they get paid by people like me essentially.

Commie.