How would you adjust these bracket-schedules?

[opebo]

Same brackets,

0%
7,550-36,550  - 5%
36,550-74,200 - 20%
74,200 - 154,800 - 40%
154,800 - 336,550 - 50%

New Brackets -

336,550-1,000,000 - 70%
1,000,000-5,000,000 - 80%
5,000,000-20,000,000 - 90%
20,000,000+                   99%

Obviously I only used the 'filing singly' graph, as I would do away with differential treatment for marrieds.

[opebo]

Yes, it depends on the deductions issue, and the quantity of same.

Under Opebo's little schedule, some country could get really rich by inviting those whose income opebo wants to take away, to come on down, and become citizens of their fair land, and renounce their US citizenship. John Templeton by the way lives in the Bahamas - as a citizen. He founded a mutual fund family, which bears his name.

But we would simply confiscate all their assets and blow up the Bahamas, Torie.

[opebo]

Well then China. The Chinese are very practical folks opebo - unlike - to pick a name at random - you! 

So just have the offender killed by a spy - the Russians used to do this all the time.  Stick him with a poison-tipped umbrella or put radioactive waste in his Cheerios.

But seriously, of course there is no chance of any policy being implemented which will diminish privilege.  Heck if anyone serious tried to do so there'd be poison in his Cheerios.

[opebo]

No, jmfcst, the problem is the rich. 

[opebo]

And I could even scrap the minimum wage since it wouldn't have any affect on low earners standard of living(better to pay some benefits out to a low wage worker than all benefits to someone unemployed).

Having no minimum wage and paying income support is just a subsidy for low wage employers.  If there is an alternative to paying the bare subsistence to keep their miserables coming back for more abuse day after day, slave-camps like WalMart and McDonalds will just pay a couple of dollars an hour and the public treasury will have to support their work force for them.  (of course in effect now we're already providing them a nearly free work-force at $7/hour or whatever it is, because society is paying for the enormous social problems resulting from such low-wage employment).