Llama la atención que tanta gente más o menos informada

Siga creyendo que la solución para la crisis por exceso de gasto y deuda en EE.UU. sea aumentarles los impuestos a los “ricos”:

The president, when he deigns to mention the issue at all, suggests that this problem could be solved if only the rich pay their “fair share.” Of course some might suggest that the rich already pay their fair share, since the much-reviled 1% earn 16% of all income in this country, but pay 36.7% of all federal income taxes. More important, however, in this context, you simply cannot tax the rich enough to solve our debt crisis.

Take the much-discussed Buffett Rule that the president focused so much attention on during the State of the Union address. Whatever one thinks of how investment income should be taxed compared to wage income, the president’s proposal would raise less than $37 billion per year. That amounts to less than 3% of this year’s deficit. In fact, if we were to confiscate — not just tax, but confiscate — every penny owned by every millionaire and billionaire in America, it would pay barely one-tenth of our government’s total indebtedness.