Just watched the videos and they were fantastic. It all started with prime lending interest rates jumping from 6.5% in 1976 to 21% in 1980. It was meant to slow inflation, but it destroyed the economy. The years these enourmous rates were in effect the rich got very rich and those who depended on credit to buy homes and cars paid the price. Then anothe thing happened to make matters much worse. Reagan took office and chopped the progressive tax structure for the rich from a cap from 70% cap down to 27%. This was coupled with massive deregulation that led to stock market crashes, the savings and loan failures, unions busted, monopolies created and a general feeling on Wall Street that they were above the law, which is still how it is today.

What we have left is a broken economy, where the top 1% own it all.

If you take the national debt and spread it equally to everyone with any net worth (many have none since the mortgage meltdown) and what we are is a bankrupt nation.

I totally agree with Thom on the billion dollar asset cap, but also a progressive tax rate on income, like they had in the Eisenhower days, with a cap at 91%.

Yes I think it is high time we tried Demand Side Economics!

A billion dollar income has social injustice and fraud laced all through it......there is no other way to pig that insane amount from your fellow man. My answer, confiscate the money, and than prosecute to the full extent of the law. Of course that would only happen in a truly representative democracy ,but so would the idea of a 100% tax rate after a billion. REVOLUTION!