We used to have debtor's prison - let's have fatcat prison here

[Hawkeye-X]

and make them do hard labor.

For those who DO NOT pay their share in taxes and have profits offshore, needs to spend time there, doing nothing but hard labor, rotten food, rotten sleeping arrangements. Idea - let's convert Gitmo to Fatcat Prison and send the greedheads there.

[dkf]

1. What about the 47% of filers who pay no income taxes?

I don't understand how they are paying their fair share.

If you want things to be fair get rid of most exemptions.

[lonestarnot]

2. Sounds good to me. Just having to go there would be torture.

We'd be arrested for torture. :evilgrin:

[Travelman]

3. Interesting concept.

Now all you have to do is come up with some sort of reasonable definition of "fatcat" and "fair share." Good luck with that. No one has succeeded in coming up with a definition of either that satisfies anyone for a long, long time.



By the way, be prepared to send a whole lot of liberals and Democrats to this new prison of yours. John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, George Soros, the entire Kennedy family, Congressman Rockefeller, Bill and Melinda Gates, the entire Baldwin family, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Keith Olbermann, Dianne Feinstein, Alan Grayson, the Dixie Chicks, and Barack Obama will all be subject to being imprisoned under your scheme. All are fatcats (net worths in the millions of dollars at the bare minimum). Oh, and you'll have to extradite Bono here to put him in prison, as well, since he offshores his US profits to sheleter them from US taxes.

Still interested in imprisoning the rich?

[Buzz Clik]

4. We might want to change the laws first.

[jotsy]

5. I could spin that a few ways.

Out of respect for the Big Easy, let's start there. All blue blooded ball boys, (that's the Goldman Sachs crew) should report to New Orleans for duty on the clean up of the gulf disaster. The folks who have been living and working there can take up residence in the homes vacated by the exit from Wall Street.

What next? Motor City, America's industrial gem lies dull and in the shadow of its former glory. I could see the execs of oil and gas in hard hats on the assembly line. The K Street kiddies in steel country, sweatin out a sturdier core. The Fed, the Treasury, the OCC and all them other alphabet soup entities that are supposed to act as a regulatory labyrinth? Let each have and operate their own full service laundering practice, it seems their skill set applies. It's gotta be bedpan duty for the health insurance industry and big pharma.

That ain't everybody, but that's a world that runs more proper in my eyes, tyvm.

Oh yeah, I rec'd the heck outta that!

[hootinholler]

6. When did we have debtor's prisons?

I thought that was one of the grievances in the declaration.

-Hoot

[dembotoz]

7. never work--the rich always take care of each other-put them in reg prisons

[Obamanaut]

8. I'm guessing you are talking about "...their fair share in taxes..." as

the federal income tax burden via IRS. I'm guessing this because everyone pays license fees, property tax, sales tax, etc.

If you are talking about a fair share of the federal income tax burden, there are many who not only have no federal income tax liability at all, but even get 'free' money through programs such as Earned Income Tax Credit. Since they don't have a federal income tax burden, and get free money at income tax time - are you going to send them to prison also. Paying nothing at all is not a fair share, is it?

[eridani]

9. What about tunbrils? n/t