There are a lot of successful athletes and artists who agree with me because they want to give something back. They know they didn't get there on their own. Gabby Douglas, Bolt, Phelps, Babs Streisand, Clooney, Maya Angelou, et al didn't get there on her own. I'm always struck by athletes and artists who think that it must be because they are so talented. There are a lot of talented athletes and artists out there.
Gabbie, Usain, Michael, Barbara, George, Maya (net worth $28 million) and many other athletes and artists may think they are gold medalists or millionaire artists because they worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you artists and athletes -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
Somebody invested in those pools, tracks, movie theaters, book stores, and balance beams. Somebody built the roads that these athletes and artists traveled to get to their jobs, to build their computers, to protect them from fire and theft.
God bless these successful athletes and artists, but they need to payback. Do these athletes and artists really need more than $100,000 a year to live on when there are families living in the street ???
Moreover, since nobody earns what they have acquired without the sacrifice of the little guy -- I got a fair formula:
US GDP = $14 trillion divided by 330 million Americans = $42,000 a year.
Hence, what could be more fair than to give every American a paycheck of $42,000 a year. Moreover, since children are our most precious asset, someone like the Octomom, who has 14 children as of 5:00 pm EST, should get her fair share of $588,000/year.
These are self-evident truths:
1) Behind every successful person are myriad hard-working citizens and their families who don't get their fair share.
2) What could be more fair than equal distribution of wealth based on population?
3) By dividing societal wealth solely based on output/population, politicians couldn't be corrupted by money since the formula for distribution is built into the Constitution.
In sum, how many liberals, leftists, marxists, socialists, democrats, do you think would support this eminently fair and incorruptible plan?
Conservatives, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, et al please don't respond, this exercise is not for you, it is for the 'kids'.
