The Top Ten Percent can start the New Revolution. Since the top ten percent of earners pay 70% of the tax revenues, all they have to do to get government off their backs is to take six to twelve months off.

No revenue, no taxes.

They can afford to take a year off, and by the end of that year, the benefits they will enjoy long-term will provide a payoff, multiple of that which they have "invested."

So if the guys that buy the beer every Friday night just don't show up for a year, then the leeches of the society just may have to get off their fat asses and find work.

Sorry, I've got to say I think you need to think about this some more.

What do that top 70% do after that year when they go back to work?

Oh wait! they don't have a job any more or their company went bust.

Not a logical solution imo....

No revenue, no taxes and NO JOB.

Find 1 person willing to start your revolution and commit financial suicide.

Real revolutions start small but end up involving the masses don't they?

As the top 10%, wouldn't they kind of prefer to stay that way?

Hm, and the tanking economy and continual rise of layoffs has nothing to do with anything

Yup, all we have to do is jump start those leeches.

If there is ever a revolution again in the United States, it will not be the top 10% who are living quite comfortably anyway, it will be the lower 50% who is tired of this faux government...

I need a vacation.

[edit on 13-1-2009 by In nothing we trust]

The rich don't start revolutions but the poor and suffering do= tax the rich give it to the poor=no revolution. Yes I like the sound of that, especially when many have acquired their weath by dubious and criminal means.

Originally posted by dooper
The Top Ten Percent can start the New Revolution. Since the top ten percent of earners pay 70% of the tax revenues, all they have to do to get government off their backs is to take six to twelve months off.

The top 10% don't make their money by mowing yards and washing dishes.

They make their money through investments

Investments make money through long term, year to year, gains.

So, basically, "taking a year off" means you pull all of your money out of where it's invested (assuming, of course, you're allowed to) and THEN you pay a big bulky tax on that sum.

So, sorry, no your failed experiment would never work