In a free market, rich people tend to get richer. Can you think of any decade in the past century in which rich people did *not* get richer?
Short of government takeover of all businesses, I don't know of any surefire way to penalize rich people without them passing the cost on to the poor. "As to your trickle-down theory, I'll just point out that it's been the rich - Wall Street - that have gotten ridiculously wealthy in the last decade; so much so that the federal government has had to step in to keep the economy from collapsing - which is worse than an economic "malaise". And now the taxpayers are being asked to bail out those rich people to prevent collapse." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264773 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
