Poker, Hillary Clinton and the Progressive Tax

The Prometheus Institute ^ | 3/21/2007 | Justin Hartfield

[tang0r]

Indeed, what would happen to the poker community if something like that were to occur? Let’s make an outrageous assumption and say that people would still actually play in a casino that enforces this rule through whatever means. The incentive of being a winning poker player would almost all be lost. Poker players would each try to earn enough to make a living for themselves, but not make so much as to get themselves into the top 20% of total players. This would indeed be counter-productive. Let us imagine even further that all of the money won or lost at the table would be redistributed to all of the players equally. Well, this would be utterly silly because no one would even bother playing anymore because there would be no real way to keep score.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I swear......

I saw: "Porker,Hillary Clinton".

[philsfan24]

only a true addict lover of poker could write an article relating poker and hillary clinton.

[magslinger]

A progressive tax might not be a bad idea. Tax progressives at a higher rate than normal people.

[SpinnerWebb]

You poke her... I ain't poking her.

[magslinger]

Are you kidding? Even Willie won't.

[SubGeniusX]

“Hey buddy, I don’t think its fair you have most of the chips, even though you did earn it through your adroit and often inspired play. I think we should implement a progressive tax plan in this casino so that the top 20% of the money winners have to give 40% of their earnings back to crappiest players.”

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