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Letter: We need a plan to ‘eat the rich’

More and ever-louder voices call for a 70 percent tax rate on our nation’s most wealthy citizens, but first we need a plan.

As this “eat the rich” scheme has been tried many times before in other countries, causing the wealthy to simply move offshore to some tax-friendly place, a surefire plan is required, and here are a few ideas.

  • First we have to catch the target billionaire, maybe a fishing net or a mouse trap might do the trick. 
  • Secure the billionaire’s feet in tub of cement so they can’t escape to another country. 
  • Ask Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to author five-step indoctrination lessons explaining why we are entitled to steal from our most hardworking, productive folk.  
  • Ask God to rescind pesky 10th commandment which makes coveting our neighbor’s stuff a sin.
  • Extinguish all Pareto-distribution references in libraries, dictionaries and digital sources. 
  • Live happily ever after because, Ocasio-Cortez reminds us, even if all American billionaires leave, there will always remain a top 1 percent regardless, even if the top 1 percent wealth metric tumbles down all the way to folks like you and me, because everyone else was chased away.
  • Sherman Stephenson, St. George

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