A Modest Proposal

Okay, maybe death is too too much to ask from the financial fat cats who stuck it to home buyers, lenders, shareholders and taxpayers.  How about something they value as much as life itself: Money.  If the taxpayers are to bail out the financial fat cats, then let the financial fat cats pay the taxes.  Congress should pass, and the president should sign into law, a tax on those with incomes more than, say $5 million per year, in an amount sufficient to cover the costs of the bailout of the financial fat cats.  Sure, this tax would hit some titans of industry who had nothing to do with the current crisis in the financial system.  Let me pay the tax and exclude the financial fat cats from their golf foursomes.  That may do more than anything else to responsibile lending and borrowing by those with more greed than brains.