I'll go a step further and say I think that the poverty line needs to be redrawn based on a fair assessment of current costs of a healthy lifestyle before we talk about fair taxation. Also, I think citizens should determine more directly where the revenue goes; and the incomes of all elected officials and representatives of government should be revised and determined by the citizens as well. None shall be appointed from corporate interests; and all funds taken from lobbyists or PACs shall be defined as corruption. Corporate "personhood" needs to be rescinded. The "too large to fail" banks and corporations need to be broken up. The majority of Supreme Court Justices need to be unseated.
I believe that large scale and pervasive changes must occur in all our endeavors and communities before the issue of human suffering will be significantly reduced, much less save the biosphere from our myopic actions. To say that the tax code or the constitution needs emendation barely scratches the surface of our challenges today. We must also be careful when calling out the conspicuously wealthy, and ask first who will "cast the first stone" if you will? Aren't many of wasteful still, in proportion to our gains? It is our thinking and our understanding of what prosperity and happiness can be that needs reVISION!
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