Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Musing of one watching a guy who's girlfriend has just dumped him in favor of his identical twin brother.

A sort of semi-fable.

The movement variously known as Unoccupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street, the other 99%, etc. seems to have become somewhat quiescent lately. I was recalling interviews with various people in the different groups and the only goals I could come up with were: stop corporate greed, tax the wealthiest 1%, provide a better life, and the like. In one case the person didn't seem to know what the goal was.

Anyway, assuming for fun that the government puts a surtax on the wealthiest 1% what would happen? Well, there are some alternatives:

1. The government could take the extra money collected (if it could figure out how much it was) and distribute it pro rata among the other 300 plus million of us. This would be highly unlikely.

2. A more likely scenario - the government would use the money in trying to balance the annual operating budget. The other 99% would never know the difference.

As Julius Caesar once observed to me, "Sic transit gloria mundi". Freely translated - "That's the way the cookie crumbles."

Oh well.