Posted on 10/31/2007 11:43:19 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Where does he come up with 4 million, anyway? Sounds unequal to me. Level everyone off to $50,000 and call it a day.
He looks like DENNIS KOOKCINICH and RON PAUL’S daddy.
This Harvard professor and socialist idiot is one of the most influential "intellectuals" in American education, because of his theory of multiple intelligences.
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I agree with Howard, but we need to start by confiscating Harvard University's wealth. I know it's still a lot of money but perhaps a $100 million cap for Harvard to start.
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Suppose I am the CEO of such a company that could pay me well more than 4 mill a year. Since more than 4 mill is confiscated, my salary would be 4 million.
The company would provide me with everything else as compensation. What part of that is this Marxist missing?
” the more leverage he can gain from his new fulcrum,”
While that has a nice sound to it, unfortunately one has no leverage at all from the fulcrum but on the longest arm.
Of course one can gain more leverage from a new fulcrum if that brings along with it a longer lever. There is nothing in my language that rules that out. And anyway, it is an image, a metaphor, a literary device ("a nice sound to it") which you acknowledge to have recognized, and, therefore, it is numbingly beside the point whether it is the fulcrum or the lever which produces the moment.
What possible reason would one want to control the earning potention of an American? The only true reason next to immature jealousy is to stiffle the American dream and therefore America's domminance.
And besides, what's this clown gonna' do, come and take 2.5M$/yr away from me? ... pysch
Ok. Then all of those liberal Hollywood leftists who demand fifeteen to twenty million dollars per movie can just hand over the difference to me and others. And professor -- if you should happen win a $100 million dollar lottery jackpot, I expect you to only take $4 million of it home. And if any business you start should happen to have more than four million in revenue, please just donate the surplus to the US Treasury and don't forget to pay the income tax on four million.
And the people who work their don't necessarily have that much contact with each other. They're all in their offices doing their own thing.
Gardner's suggestion was one of 21 given by various "experts." Article here. It's basically just academics who live in their own little world shooting the breeze.
And Gardner's like that math professor who decided to take an algorithm for his middle name.
How much you want to bet he’s never had a real job in his life?
What business is it of anyone, other than the person who EARNED it?
One of my favorite things about the phrase, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," are two simple questions: Who gets to say what YOUR ability is? Who gets to say what YOUR need it? Let's say that you're not performing up to your ability? Does your need get reduced along with it? Where are the incentives to excel at your job?
What you're asking is an evil question. Yes, I said it's evil.
Mark
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