Ted Rall for January 29, 2014

Who was the richest guy in the world in 1900? 1800? 1700? I don’t know, and I bet you don’t either. Money isn’t enduring. Ideas are.If you think all there is to life is having more cash you have my sympathies.

The rich people ought to learn from history – at some point the camels back will break.

the two richest men in America, Gates and Buffett made their own money, the Walton are only 2nd Generation. Job’s widow is first generation. Zuckenburg and the other FB millionaires are first generation. Beyonce and Jay Z first generation. What is in common with all of them, they worked, they saved, they invest smart and now you want to take their money away because they were successful???

Funny how the Occupy Wall Street are against greed when all they want is “their share”

At least hyperbole is employed…

Doctor Warbucks Only a few of the Occupy people who originated the protest in St Louis were unemployed. And, of those few, most had been employed within the last year. After a few days, we did have some homeless people who attached themselves to the group and several of them became our hardest and most dedicated workers. Yet, they were unemployed and had been for a long time. If they weren’t " doing their share of the work and making any contribution whatsoever to the betterment of the country", it wasn’t a fault within them, because they produced, as volunteers, when we gave them a chance. So, the fault has to be within the system that gave them no opportunity to do so.

A liberal is the guy who leaves the room when the figtht starts. We are headed for revolution, becuse we are living in a long-term Depression in which the global rate of capitalst profit is in decline. Why? Because the earth is finite and cannot sustain infinite growth – which the capitalist system depends on. So – bye bye capitalism, hello revolution.And BTW “Doctor”, Gates and the others didn’t “earn” their fortune. These parasites legally stole the surplus value from millions of workers, who did pay and are paying outrageous taxes!

While we agree that any form of income should count as income, a flat tax would not do it. The flat tax invariably puts a higher relative weight on the poor than the rich, which is why so many rich people want it.After all, 35% of a billionaire’s total income leaves him with hundreds of millions.35% of a minimum-wage worker’s income means he lacks food, transport, or housing.And if you look at the “footprint,” rich people use far more of American infrastructure than the poor, and they should pay their fair share for that.

@ Michael wmeThe author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN is John Perkins.

Love the cartoon and feel it is quite grounded in reality. While the 1% gain wealth, the other 99% at best have stagnant wages or no wages..@nightgaunt, good points but personally I feel the flat tax would be a good thing. For one the IRS would lose most of it’s teeth and with all income as taxable I feel it would generate more revenue and cost less to collect and enforce. Accountants and lobbyist would have it rough though.

Wonderful. The only weakness I see here is that the richest guy would own 3/4, not one half. But aside from that . . . The Liberal cracks me up, but then I think about it, and this one may not be a satire, just a likeness (which I dislike).

Greed is good, they say…Greed is a good incentive to innovation, but it is also without end. When left to run wild, a greedy person will destroy itself and whatever it can in the process.