Everything is legal until it is made illegal. Capitalism is working exactly as intended with record breaking profits and record breaking management salaries. We subscribe to capitalism as our economic system so why would we make its success illegal?

@LovinLarge I'm not suggesting an "illegal" status for profit making and profit taking...

I'm just tired of seeing the growing separation of the very rich and very poor,

Maybe higher tax brackets...like in the Eisenhower days?

@Robecology The fundamental goal of capitalism is profit, so taxation of any measure is undesirable. You hear some capitalists complain that "taxation is theft" but taxation is provided for in the Constitution. So even the founding fathers did not envision a strictly capitalist economy.

During WWII, the highest income bracket had a 94% tax rate to finance the war. Today it is 40% and we still have about 750 billionaires and 22 million millionaires. About 11% of Americans live in poverty and almost a million die from poverty related issues each year.

So capitalism is working for some people but not for others. What we really have is a somewhat mixed economy given the social safety net but still many people falling through the cracks. This is one aspect of our current domestic crisis with democracy hanging in the balance.

@LovinLarge With ' democracy hanging in the balance." that's the truth.

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@Robecology The "Peoples Republic of California" does or attempts to do many strange things. In this case I believe this will be nothing more than a political stunt that never becomes a law.

@Alienbeing I hope you're wrong...but I'm afraid you're right.

@Robecology If you lived here you would know California Democrats promise everything, and deliver prctically nothing......... except higher State taxes.