im amazed at how many closet socialists there are on a trading forum..
to the statement that the tax system is out of whack for the terrible '1%' (notice how its never sporting, musicians, actors who are vilified) is ridiculous, say you increase income tax, all that is doing is hurting middle and upper-middle class... uber wealthy dont earn an income, its locked away in trusts and investments, even if a tax raise did hurt them they would just offhsore funds or hire an accountant, why, cos they can afford to..
Now lets get to the problem with the argument... if your in favour of redistribution (as if theirs a pre defined level of 'wealth' that an all knowing body of benevolent politicians divides up 'fairly') then you would support ridiculous purchases of frivolous consumption.
In a free market that is how wealth is distributed, would you rather the wealthy consume and let all the jobs, trickle down money that goes along with it or would you rather they hoarde?
Most of the modern comforts today were seen as ridiculous luxuries of the uber rich, without the uber rich spending money on 'wasteful consumption'.. we would not have indoor bathrooms, many of the cars you see on the roads etc etc. Its funny how most of the basic amenities the middle class have today were not available to the Pharaohs of old no matter how uber rich and '1%' they were..