If workers were paid a living wage there would be more taxpayers. [View all]

[Waiting For Everyman]

Also, if people could make ends meet on one job instead of two or three, more people would be employed -- the unemployment rate would go down because those second and third jobs would be employing others.

It's time to double the minimum wage, and set a maximum wage beyond which it's a 99% tax rate. The top tier has been overpaying themselves by underpaying the bottom. With a top income limit that would stop in a hurry. The inequality gap would quickly resolve itself.

Private billionaires are a threat to the stability of the country. Besides, most of the super rich got that way via the Bush tax cuts which they expect the rest of us to pay for, or the legalization of criminal activities via their lobbyists buying our law. They need to cough it up, and be glad they're not in jail (yet). There's no reason for us to follow through and pay for their ill-gotten windfall.

For these super rich to have the NERVE to actually COMPLAIN about the under-paid not paying taxes is adding insult to criminal theft.

Those arguments should be shoved back down their throats. Oh and btw, it really angers me when somebody talks about "asking" the wealthy to pay more. No, REQUIRE them to pay more. That's the language used for the rest of us. Who thinks like that, "ask" them?