>If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens. Here's where I call BS. >Look at China's economic situatio

>If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens. Here's where I call BS. >Look at China's economic situation right now to see how ultimately unproductive that can be. Isn't it a wee bit apples/oranges to say this about a totalitarian communist country with a converging set of issues (population pyramid, needs to import food, stressed water reserved, pollution)... nah it's definitely the rich people, we need to protect them! /s