by Robert Reich

[merrily]

1. Making the deductions illegal is one way to go. Taxing the income of the

executive at a much higher rate than we tax it now--and maybe even also subjecting all of the income to FICA--is another way to go.

Or, we could just keep taxing Buffett's secretary at a higher effective rate than we tax Buffett, even though he's a job creator and she simply fills one of the jobs his wealth creates, making no contribution to him or to society in her own right. And nothing she buys with the money she earns creates any jobs either.