Economic Pinch

Life in America has been getting steadily worse for years, and the only way it's ever going to get any better is if we pour money into improving it. Allow me to humbly suggest that we get this money by squeezing the greedy, arrogant fatcats that ruined the nation in the first place. Let's stop treating people who give themselves a $50M raise as if they deserve human rights; they should be subject to mandatory donations of a percentage of their ill-gotten gains, which will amount to "one less ivory backscratcher" on their budget but will make a noticeable difference down where actual people are living and barely scraping by. There are ethical arguments against doing this; I say they do not matter. The time is now for the purveyors of greed to pay us our pound of flesh, and be thankful we do not alter the deal further.