A few years ago in Forbes, John Stossel pointed out that the big-money folk in America
don’t have enough spare change between them to put a dent in the financial woes
of their own country, let alone the rest of the world.
“If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just
$616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit.”
The finer details of Stossel’s math might
be debated, but all the same he’s got a point, and one that won’t go away.
Some problems can’t be fixed — at least not by human beings.