This is what Progressives really believe would be best for America, UTOPIA as is said in this brilliant column in the NYT

You just can't make these things up.  

This is what Progressives really believe would be best for America, UTOPIA as is said in this brilliant column in the NYT

Why Not Utopia?

MARCH 20, 2015
by Mark Bittman

[...]

But this assumes that people have work that pays a taxable income, and that’s not a safe assumption. Better is the Guaranteed Basic Income, which is not universally despised (it’s at least as old as Thomas Paine, was endorsed by the economist Friedrich Hayek and was recently considered by Switzerland), because it would simplify matters and help keep the economy moving. How all of this would be financed is of course a question; we could make the income tax look like it did 60 years ago, when the top rate was 91 percent (and, by the way, the economy was just fine), or we could institute a 100 percent tax on wealth over $1 billion, or ... well, there’s no dearth of ideas. The way to address income distribution is to redistribute income.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/why-not-utopia.html?_r=0

Your paradigm is pretty much screwed up. You take the pragmatism of returning tax rates to somewhere between the highs of the past and the lows of today which allows for empowerment of the average american and the middle class, and then assume that the goal is to allow a free ride for slackers. This view of the world is the view shared by many of my partners who are wealthy, and it denies the function of government and it denies the reality that a few have stolen America by a combination of the tax code and pouring money into the political system to allow America to return to colonial times of economic exploitation, where a few control the many.......what you are selling is a lie.

How would you suggest, Markle, that we tackle this problem?:

2seaoat wrote:Your paradigm is pretty much screwed up.  You take the pragmatism of returning tax rates to somewhere between the highs of the past and the lows of today which allows for empowerment of the average american and the middle class, and then assume that the goal is to allow a free ride for slackers.   This view of the world is the view shared by many of my partners who are wealthy, and it denies the function of government and it denies the reality that a few have stolen America by a combination of the tax code and pouring money into the political system to allow America to return to colonial times of economic exploitation, where a few control the many.......what you are selling is a lie.  

Is the article I posted generally what you see as ideal for America?