[Jaysun]

Let the rich buy the politicians. The poor can’t afford to.

[denydenydeny]

Peston’s argument is not that the rich should be penalised, but that they should pay the same rates of tax as everyone else. That seems only fair

LOL! I somehow doubt that the Junior Bolsheviks who wrote the book and this article are Flat-Taxers. I would wager that they look longingly at the 90% tax rates of pre-Thatcher Britain.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

As the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (explains, wealth does not follow the normal distribution. If it did, you could randomly select a thousand people and average their wealth - then confidently expect that if Bill Gates happened to be selected next, his wealth would not affect the average very much. In fact of course, it would throw the average into a cocked hat.

Unlike, say, averaging men's weight, where even a sumo wrestler's weight wouldn't blast the previous average out of the water.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It’s pretty clear that here in the US we are about to elect the best president George Soros could buy.

[Cacique]

Just like our republicrat party.