This is what I was getting at. The money is there, it’s merely a question of how it’s distributed. The impression I get from many of the people who argue that athletes, musicians, actors, etc. are overpaid is that they believe the money should instead go to the owner of the team, the record company, or the movie studio. So yes, a multimillionaire entertainer should be in a higher tax bracket than a doctor, and a doctor should be in a higher tax bracket than a housekeeper. That doesn’t mean that a highly paid athlete like Lebron James should be taxed higher than the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, or that he should take a lower salary so that the team owner can keep more of the money made by the team.
…but then if Seinfeld was a Laker…
Do you believe it’s not? If so, that would imply that you believe somebody made a mistake in paying Seinfeld so much money. Who made the mistake? Who got screwed over?
… he’d say he was ‘Superior’ and I’d say he’s just ‘Erie’ (and smells like lake water).
That’s why we give Treasury Agents guns.
“Now, about these deductions…”
They have the money to live in any one of a thousand nations, but the point is that unless they pick one, they are ‘homeless’.
There many reasons to be a citizen of an actual nation and not to set up a fiefdom on some unaffiliated coral atoll, pretending that you can protect your fortune from pirates.
Seinfeld in addition to being a great comedian, is a major player in the classic car world, which, as far as I’m concerned, is a form of art preservation, so he’s one of the good guys IMO and using his money for benevolent purposes. I shot this picture of a Lamborghini Miura that he drove on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”, at a car show a few years ago.