Reply #22: You missed the point, actually [View All]

By limiting choices to what you perceive as "reality...not fantasy", you have moved to a Hobson's Choice among things which are already proven to have failed, or are simply immaterial.

That is the position of powerlessness.

One MUST work for what will truly work and truly be good.

I understand that "the enemy of the good is the perfect". However, it is also true that "nothing fails like failing try" simply because it is said to be not possible. You MUST work toward what you believe in, not what others say is "possible". That is the logic of the middleman, the speculator (judging what to make money on), the bookie, and the political analyst. Not what we need or want.

and BTW, 94% was perfectly "fair" during the depression and WWII. As people make more money, it costs society proportionally more to support them (property protection, support for those on the bottom when the median moves artificially upward, societal ills cause by inequality, etc.). It is a fact, demonstrable throughout the 20th Century, that the higher the top marginal rates, the better the economy. It is that simple. See, e.g., http://www.thomhartmann.com/2009/07/21/the-great-tax-con-job/.