PERSONAL INCOME   RESPONSE FORM Topic Index

POLICIES

  1. The maximum gross annual income a person can receive should be limited to the annual income of the Prime Minister (which should remain at about the current level) unless:-
  2. this income is augmented by awards for special achievement.

OPINIONS

  1. The difference between the incomes of the richest and poorest in our present society is unjust to the point of obscenity.
  2. The rewards given to some members of society bear no relation to their merit.
  3. When moronic, adolescent warblers of moronic love songs can be paid vastly more than the Prime Minister of the country something is seriously wrong. Ditto for bean-pole, cat-walk walkers, and people who devote their lives to doing fatuous things with balls or becoming the best hopper, skipper and jumper in the world. Entertainers of nearly every sort are grossly overpaid for doing what they enjoy. Businessmen and managers are another group who grossly over-estimate their value; most of them only achieve and hold their position by corrupt means, ie. by supporting the corruption of their predecessors and depriving their subordinates of influence or opportunities.
  4. Something has to be done to bring about a fairer distribution of wealth.
  5. The most arduous, difficult, important and responsible job in the country is almost certainly that of the Prime Minister, why should anybody else have the arrogance and conceit to imagine they are entitled to be paid more? We now have the ridiculous situation in which a person who devotes his life to something as trivial, inconsequential and enjoyable as playing the game of football is paid as much in a fortnight as the Prime Minister is paid in a year. This gross distortion of worth has to be brought to an end. The fact that a person's work is seen and enjoyed by millions of people around the world watching their TVs doesn't make that person's work valuable. The trashiest and most trivial things are usually the most popular, sport, soaps and game shows on the TV and porn sites on the Net for example. The mass media are negating the benefits of education and reducing the population to the level where they value the work of people who play cretinous characters in ridiculous soaps, or people who knock little white balls around the countryside and into little holes, more highly than people doing difficult and important work.
  6. It is apparent that the market doesn't adjust rewards to appropriate levels. Either the tax system or a universal job grading scheme needs to be used to correct the situation.
  7. Being talented is a substantial benefit in itself and being famous and admired is a substantial reward. To expect to be filthy rich as well is contemptible. Only cretins and decadent egoists want to be rich and to flaunt their selfish vanity. Anybody with any intelligence knows about the law of diminishing returns.
  8. Everybody has the right to know how much money everybody else has and how they came by it. We all have the right to know who is fair and honest and who is a cheating crook. People only want their affairs to be secret when they have something disreputable to hide.

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