Wealth, What is it?

[TheMercenary]

Lets talk weath.. I would appreciate it if you all commented in an effort to refocus the discussion and take advantage of an interesting bit of thread drift from the Hillary/McCain thread.

Let's start with individual income. Leave big corps out of this but you can include CEO's or anyone who has income and pays taxes.

So what is wealth? How do you define it?

Is it:
anyone who makes more than you?
anyone who makes $XXXX, and what is that amount?
should people who make more than you pay for those who make less, if yes how much more do they have to make than you make before they start to pay more?
should the gobberment assign a number to divide out and heavily tax those who make more?
if people make more and worked real hard all of their lives to get to that point should they pay for those who do not?
should wealthy people get more breaks on taxes?
how much in dollars do wealthy people pay vs. those who make less than them, I mean in real dollars, do they actually contribute more or about the same?

what burden should a person with wealth, say a person who at one time was poor making 20k, built up a family business and now owns a community farm and 5 stores, who now gets about 300k per year in income for his family, how much should he pay in taxes? Compare that to a person of your choice, highschool drop out who works at Burger King, or college kid who got a great education but now works at Starbucks because his degree got him no where and daddy cut off his gravy train? What is this persons role? Should the guy who owns the farm pay for the other people? He already employs people on his farm and in his stores.