thought no. 32

So, people like to describe taxing the very wealthy as "punishing success". Honestly, when it comes to some of our very wealthiest citizens, I'm not sure that their successes have been particularly good for the nation. Maybe they ought to be "punished". Perhaps had someone "punished" hedge fund managers, sub-prime loan officers, and derivative bond dealers into pursuing their businesses less vigorously, we could have avoid our current financial clusterfuck.