Last Sunday, Greg Cavanagh had an opinion piece, "Why punish the rich
for good choices?" in the Star Tribune. I was outraged at the way he
ascribed all good attributes to the wealthy and all negative ones to
the poor. I wrote the following piece in response, which was not
published. It bears
Forbes Magazine reports that Carl Pohlad has $2.8 billion. I'm willing to
take that figure.
2.8 billion is 2800 million. I propose the state take 10% of that, or 280
million, every year, until poor Carl is down to 100 million. Then we cut
back to $10 million a year, until he is down to 5 million,
Carol Becker wrote:
> We talk about the progressively of taxes based on income because the
> government has a system of measuring income while it doesn't really have a
> system measuring wealth. If own say a diamond mine, the government
doesn't
> have a system for valuing that diamond mine to det