Originally Posted by Robbie

Have you ever made really good money yourself? Not attacking you. I'm just asking.
I have. And when I sat down to write those quarterly checks to the govt. it was fucking painful.

And if you would like to see investment dry up overnight then go ahead and raise those capital gains taxes. And watch retirees suffer as well as the rest of the already crippled economy collapse even more.

I don't know what life experiences you have had. But mine have led me to completely different conclusions than the ones that you are expressing.