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In reply to the discussion: Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)that can be done without getting rid of the 100, whose money would NOT get to the 1% on the bottom.
Which by the way, the 1% on the bottom don't work.
You are talking about workers, who are not the very bottom.
If you take away the top, it can NOT stop in the middle.
It would need to also take away the middle, to all go to the poorest (starting with those on welfare for instance), then everyone would be equal.
People who work are already better off than those at the lowest level.
Because unless that is done, why wouldn't the very very bottom still whine about theirs?
Take away 100% of the money of the 100 in the OP, and it still does not mean one penny
to anyone else.
Just saying tax the hell out of them, is meaningless, as that does not get to the people itself, though it can help to shovel the snow, and pick up the trash (but then the workers who do that are not on the bottom level.)