{"id":4630,"date":"2011-10-04T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2011-10-04T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:32:50","slug":"how-much-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"How Much is Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mantra is always that the rich should pay their &quot;fair share&quot;. Roseanne Barr recently said that anyone with personal wealth over $100 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/10\/01\/roseanne_barr_behead_bankers_rich_who_wont_give_up_wealth.html\" target=\"_blank\">should send the excess to the government<\/a> (and if they won&#8217;t, she deadpanned that we should send them to reeducation camps or behead them (civility watch!)). President Obama said that you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2011\/10\/04\/this-is-why-america-is-not-creating-new-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have any inherent right to a certain amount of profit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s an interesting juxtaposition; Roseanne Barr has more courage of her convictions, such that she should have a more concrete dollar value than Obama&#8217;s &quot;certain amount&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>What I would like to find out is, if there are liberals who would go on the record saying exactly (or even closely) what these values should be.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much is the rich&#8217;s &quot;fair share&quot;? The only answer we&#8217;ve ever had is &quot;more than they&#8217;re paying now&quot;. <\/li>\n<li>Should the government put a limit on how much private citizens are allowed to earn, or a limit on total wealth? If so, how much? <\/li>\n<li>Should the government put a limit on the profit a private company is allowed to make, as either a percentage or an absolute annual amount? If so, how much? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Herman Cain has his &quot;999&quot; plan. Rep. John Linder started a Flat Tax proposal. You know where these guys stand. But how about the Left coming out and telling us how much is too much? What&#8217;s the target they&#8217;re shooting at?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mantra is always that the rich should pay their &quot;fair share&quot;. Roseanne Barr recently said that anyone with personal wealth over $100 million should send the excess to the government (and if they won&#8217;t, she deadpanned that we should send them to reeducation camps or behead them (civility watch!)). President Obama said that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,15,21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-liberal","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}