<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:45 PM, <a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">This is why 'raising taxes on the rich' doesn't work, for those of you who<br>have been paying attention.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yabbut raising taxes on the poor doesn't help either because they ain't got no money.</div><div><br></div><div>I am of the strong opinion that, rather than inviting the CEOs of the 15 biggest banks in the country to the Oval Office and talking to them, we should simply hang them from lampposts by their own intestines as a warning to the others. It would be much cheaper and much more effectual in the long--hell, even the medium--run.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>