Re: "Castigo Cay" by Matthew Bracken

On 7/23/2025 4:30 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
...>          And sometimes you have to simply raise taxes on the well off

and well
compensated to balance the budget as Ike did way back there when I was in High School. 90% taxes on the people with over a few millilon a year might do a lot to
bring the deficit down. Confiscatory taxation on the people with over $100 million
in wealth might do a lot  more.  The money belongs to the nation and the nation
should be able to recall it when it is trapped in the holdings of a few people.
      bliss

Why not just take every penny that the millionaires and billionaires in the USA own ?
Lynn