BlameThePixel!

no rich people shouldnt be taxed... they shouldnt exist at all... (i heard that about 60 % of the worlds money is in the hands of fev rich people)

i think thats wrong.... there should be a limit in how much money a person could have,....

(or something like it)

great.... oooh in geography, imy textbook said the western world and japan had 15% of the worlds population, but 75% of the money

i heard that 10% of pop controls 90% of the money

that is probably true.
there is few very rich peoples like Bill Gates, Michael Schumacher, and lot of acters, politisans and this kind of peoples.
They are dirty rich, like Pope on BTP

no thats not reallly what they are talking about. bill gates really doesnt up the percentage very much, it is just that like the poorest person in america or great britain would be the richest person in China.

lol, don't think so. I would imagine the people that run china are very rich, more so than much of the prople in great britain or the usa. It's the averages that count, I guess.

bill gates is richer than peru. i learned that from "behind enemy lines"

yes actually the richest person is from china i think but my point is that someone in america (and others) that is considered poor would be considered rich in third world countries.

how dare u compare pope to the richest person on btp. I am by far!

2000 isnt far. and the average annual income per person in ethopia is £120 dollars


actually, that should be $120...

A Tax Fable

Suppose that everyday 10 men go to PJ's for lunch. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If it were paid the way we pay our taxes, the first four men would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1; the sixth would pay $3; the seventh $7; the eighth $12; the ninth $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. The 10 men ate lunch in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until the owner threw them a curve.

"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20." Now lunch for the 10 would costs only $80. The first four are unaffected. They still eat for free. Can you figure out how to divvy up the $20 savings between the remaining six so that everyone gets his fair share?

The men realize that $20 divided by 6 is $3.33, but if they subtract that from everybody's share, then the fifth and the sixth man would end up being paid to eat their meal. The restaurant owner suggested that it would be only fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount that each paid and he started to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of $59. Outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man pointing to the tenth, "and he got $7!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got seven times more than me!"

"That's true," shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks."

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor."

The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next day he didn't show up for lunch, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They were $52 short!

And that, boys and girls and college instructors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore. There are lots of good restaurants in Switzerland and the Caribbean.

ive heard that before and love it. its a very, very good example, i'de like some of those darn democrats to read it.

and yes it is meiapaul seeing as 2000 was lots before "someone" introduced poker. And before i donated all my money away i had about 6000 more than pope. (about 26000)

so, what, ur agains't democracy?

haha good one, oh umm.. the USA is a representative republic not a democracy. and i dont know about OPTiSSiMUS
but i am against straight democracy because i dont want all the lazy people to say "give us your money" and me having to comply with them because majority rules. although, seeing as how i have no BTP money, i might just do that