“If all the Forbes billionaires agreed to limit themselves to their basic billion and handed over the excess to Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam would end up with some $90 billion without one member of the club having to give up a single necessity or, for that matter, a single luxury...not a house, not a car, not a boat, not nothing."
What was obviously left unsaid and perhaps unconsidered by Mr Hewitt was the dual unknowns of this proposal, what would happen to the economy if the 1995 Bill Gates / Larry Ellison / Steve Jobs were deprived of company control through the sequestration of their wealth (just to name 3) AND what kind of steward of that one-time windfall wealth the government (politicians) would be?
Senator Sanders is in this same line of 'distinguished' thinkers who consider government as the proprietor of all wealth and should limit its distribution in order to bring equitable OUTCOME!
I regard Sen. Sanders as the comic relief of the Democrat-Socialists for the 2016 Presidential Campaign. He makes Hillary look less leftist than she really is by running to her public left.
Also left out is how long that $90 billion would last in government spending, and to what level the confiscation would be democratically determined to continue down the wealth pyramid.
And THAT is Sanders' real mission: Stalking Horse for She Who Must Not Be Named.