People don't seem to understand this

[David S]

that's why we don't want to destroy money or remove it from the marketplace, but rather sieze and redistribute it.

Sieze and redistribute sounds a bit like theft.

[David S]

The real theft is that of the highest class from the working people.

Sounds like you believe in the constant pie theory, meaning that there is only so much wealth available. If one person takes a bigger slice for himself then everyone else gets a smaller piece. But what if someone makes the pie bigger. Yes he still gets a huge part for himself but everyone else also gets more than they had before.

Lets use a really rich guy, Bill Gates, as an example. He made himself extremely rich, but in the process he built a company that makes useful products that most of us use everyday (and some of us even like using them!) In addition his company employs about 15,000 people, last time I checked. So he's also created jobs for lots of people.
Besides that he's a philanthropist and has donated millions of dollars to good causes. Whats so bad about that? Seems to me that everyone is better off.

[David S]

Lets take another example. In the early 1980's Chrysler Corporation was on the verge of bankruptcy. This would have put many thousands of employees out of work and resulted in huge losses for the stockholders. Lee Iacocca stepped in and turned things around. Within a few years the company had paid off its debts and returned to profitability.  For the first year or two Iacocca  took no salary, but once the company became profitable his compensation went up to obscene levels.

So he saved the jobs of thousands of employees, paid off the debts that the company would have defaulted on, and prevented huge losses for the stockholders. Did he deserve his huge salary? I say yes.

[David S]

I've never made enough to qualify and probably won't this year (probably will next year though), but I currently get about 15% of my paycheck removed in payroll taxes.

Unless you are self employed they only take 7.65% for soc sec and medicare together. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/taxRates.html Your employer kicks in another 7.65% on your behalf but you never see that in your check stub.

Also you don't pay a penny in income taxes but you want to fund all kinds of giveaway programs using money from  those who do pay income taxes. Not very nice of you.

It would be poetic justice if you worked your tail off to become really rich only to see your assets seized and redistributed by some future BRTD.