Richard  It is the Rs who will not sit still for a "greed tax", a.k.a. Windfall Profits tax. That could have redirected some of the excesses out of energy prices.Another approach, one neither party likes because their big contributors don't like the idea, is a Windfall Profits Tax for Employees. Here I have in mind the C-Suite inhabitants whose total annual compensation exceeds $1 million. If $1million isn't enough to live on quite comfortably, I would ask "Why Not?"I used (or misused) the word "Employees" because the guys who built the company -- Bill Gates springs to mind -- should be allowed to profit, for it was they who created the jobs. On the other hand, Jamie Diamond, how ever admirably he has managed JP Morgan, isn't the fellow who created the jobs initially and thus, in my view, should be subject to such taxes.Democrats spend like drunken sailors? How about the trillions -- yes, trillions -- that both W and Trump put into corporate pockets? Is it drunken spending only when the common man benefits but not when the C-Suite execs benefit?

Richard  It is the Rs who will not sit still for a "greed tax", a.k.a. Windfall Profits tax. That could have redirected some of the excesses out of energy prices.Another approach, one neither party likes because their big contributors don't like the idea, is a Windfall Profits Tax for Employees. Here I have in mind the C-Suite inhabitants whose total annual compensation exceeds $1 million. If $1million isn't enough to live on quite comfortably, I would ask "Why Not?"I used (or misused) the word "Employees" because the guys who built the company -- Bill Gates springs to mind -- should be allowed to profit, for it was they who created the jobs. On the other hand, Jamie Diamond, how ever admirably he has managed JP Morgan, isn't the fellow who created the jobs initially and thus, in my view, should be subject to such taxes.Democrats spend like drunken sailors? How about the trillions -- yes, trillions -- that both W and Trump put into corporate pockets? Is it drunken spending only when the common man benefits but not when the C-Suite execs benefit?

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