To build on Bono's story, I was thinking of Bret 'Ginx' Alan (sorry our Trailer Park Boys bonding is over) and his assertion taxing the wealthy at 90% is fair in terms of maintaining a balanced and equitable society. Besides, so it goes, no one is worth a certain amount of money at some point. How much does one need? But why stop at income? Why not cap, say, the size of house you desire and build? After all, does anyone really need all that space? And so on we can theoretically go.
How much someone "thinks" they need and what they "ought"" to have is personal and subjective in my view.
Which made me ask and wonder: With the new movie about Facebook about to come out, the inventors of that social network site made an obscene amount of money. Should the government have confiscated 90% of it for the public good? It becomes subjective, of course, if we begin to ask if Facebook has any true worth to begin with. The same goes for any inventor who makes it big.
In the case, of Bono, with his money, why is he begging people to push his agenda however humane it may be? If he is so concerned about the poor and needy (and I don't doubt that he is), couldn't he just cut a check - say to the tune of 90% of his income - directly to the government for the amount needed and be done with it?
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