Great post and classic, I bet the waiter really doesn't like the idea of his wealth being redistributed.

The thing is that if you take all of the incomes above $250k, and added them up, you couldn't tax them enough to pay for any new/old programs, this is the fallacy behind the De3ms tax the rich propaganda, and they know it. The only way Obama's share the wealth plan could work is to redistribute the wealth of the middle-class to the lower classes, making everyone poor except the ruling class, no different then Communism/Fascism/Socialism/Dictatorship/Feudalism when practiced on a national level.

I have no problem with cutting the salaries of corporate executives when their company has to be bailed out. I wouldn't just cut their salaries to the level of the Janitor, but mandate that they had to work for the company at that pay until the company repaid the bailout money. It would be pay based on their past performance, and punishment for running the corporation into the ground.