Wealth Tax
The suggestion from a reader at left represents the right idea overall, but needs to be rethought.
I met a guy from Norway the other day who talked about his nation’s wealth tax. In short, it’s hard to become and remain a billionaire anywhere in his region of the world, though it’s actually easy to become fairly affluent. That’s because moderate income people actually pay significantly lower tax rates than we Americans do, and, of course, all education and healthcare are free.
If I were asked to suggest the best approach to a wealth tax, I’d start by researching how various countries around the globe have designed and implemented theirs.
The man with the sign here is my friend Paul Scott, co-founder of 
At left are the words of former Republican Party U.S. representative from Illinois and 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, apologizing to the free world for what’s happening in the United States at this point in time.
The author of the meme here doesn’t seem to understand that the youngsters in DOGE are making policy decisions that do violence to the health, safety, and general well-being of every American, and, indirectly, most of the people in other countries around the world.
Yes, stupidity is required here, but keep in mind that the MAGA crowd will believe anything, regardless of how absurd, if it comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. That’s more than mere stupidity.
My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with Russia by attacking first, I suppose she has a point.
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left.
As at least 99% of us know, school students can read the Bible if they so choose.
Like so many of his college friends in the early 1940s, my father (temporarily) dropped out to fight in WW2. Dad happened to become a B17 (bomber) pilot, running missions out of London, destroying Nazi oil refineries. Also like his friends, he was thrilled to come home when the war was over in 1945.
