Howard Gardner: ban annual incomes above $4 million

Harvard Magazine ^ | September-October 2007

[reaganaut1]

In the magazine Foreign Policy, [Howard Gardner] argued in the spring for upper limits on the amount of income an American should be allowed to keep and the amount of wealth that can be passed on to beneficiaries ($4 million a year and $200 million, respectively). “It makes sense to be moderate politically only if there are two sides willing to engage,” he says. “The right wing isn’t just taking over the country, it’s shanghaiing all our values. If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession. It’s not the same country anymore.”

[reaganaut1]

This Harvard professor and socialist idiot is one of the most influential "intellectuals" in American education, because of his theory of multiple intelligences.

Don't donate to your alma mater if that means subsidizing scum.

[kempster]

Does this mean we will be able to go to a ballgame for $1.50 again? Or to a movie for .25? I better quit while I’m ahead, I’m showing my age.

[American Quilter]

"If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession."

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Howard. And take your fellow useful idiots with you.

[ozzymandus]

If you want a laugh, click on the article and look at his picture. This Marxist nerd couldn’t change a light bulb, yet he’s “influential” to the left. I hope he gets lost on his way home and is never heard from again.

[Farmer Dean]

Don’t woory about showing your age.Sounds like you enjoyed America at it’s best,which was 50+ years ago.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Better if we limit the income of liberal professors at liberal universities...that way they can understand the true effects of socialism

[JZelle]

Sounds like the tree of liberty needs watered.

[I see my hands]

To: Howard "Chancey" Gardner

"I would join in efforts for some sort of secession"

Probably the sort where you still get to steal the wealth of your betters, huh?

[Billthedrill]

It's sort of like seeing that really smart Electrical Engineering professor you know argue passionately in favor of phrenology - you don't have the heart to tell him he's an idiot, but he is.

Now, let's see - if that income between four and five million a year should represent some entrepreneur's share of a new startup and you tell him you're going to confiscate it if he makes it, what happens to the startup? Is "disincentive" in Dr. Gardner's vocabulary? How about "common sense"?

[snarks_when_bored]

Howard Gardner: ban annual incomes above $4 million

How much money does a private university get to earn each year?

Harvard University's endowment earned a 16.7 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2006, bringing the endowment's overall value to $29.2 billion.

[LonePalm]

Wouldn't multiple intelligences also imply multiple stupidities?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Disambiguator]

This Harvard professor and socialist idiot is one of the most influential "intellectuals" in American education, because of his theory of multiple intelligences.

He apparently has multiple intelligences as well, all with factors of zero.

[lonevoice]

This Harvard professor and socialist idiot is one of the most influential "intellectuals" in American education, because of his theory of multiple intelligences.

Oh, brother. Just what year was it that our most prestigious institutes of higher learning finally finished circling down the drain?

[Disambiguator]

If you want a laugh, click on the article and look at his picture. This Marxist nerd couldn’t change a light bulb, yet he’s “influential” to the left. I hope he gets lost on his way home and is never heard from again.

[taxcontrol]

At the very least, it would indicate the possibility of multiple stupidities? The next question would be, how many multiple stupidities does it take to make a complete idiot?

[fungoking]

Huey Long lives!!!!!

[Red Boots]

If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession. It’s not the same country anymore.”

I, for one, am all for the idea of secession. Let the people who want to live in a welfare state all go to one region and let them have it. Then they have have their social utopia and let the rest of us go back to a nation founded on the actual constitution.

It's really our only hope of averting a civil war.

[Argus]

You’re right, Gardner’s whole demeanor screams “ivory tower dweeb”. Plus there’s this on his resume:

“Gardner is also a founder and now senior director of the educational think tank Project Zero.”

Yup, one look at this guy and “Zero” definitely comes to mind.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It's just not the same country anymore."

When libs make idiotic statements like this, I wonder what they miss about the old America whose demise they are lamenting. Do they miss slavery? Jim Crow? Wars where we lose hundreds of thousands of American soldiers? Dropping atomic bombs? Rounding up Japanese-Americans into concentration camps? 60 hour work weeks? Do they want to bring back anti-sodomy legislation? Deny women the right to vote? Deny naturalization to non-whites? To what point in our idyllic, pre-Bush past do they want to return?

[SampleMan]

“It makes sense to be moderate politically only if there are two sides willing to engage,”

Shall we take his advice and shoot him?