Leonid, if you want static, permanent classes, raise taxes. The single greatest obstacle to class mobility, aside from education (complete different thread) is the tax load slogging down the economy.
Despite visions of a redistributed nirvana, you end up with the rich more conservative, milking every dollar they can out of their position. Taxes allow little chance for competition to arise and break into monopolies, because with taxes you've added approximately 100% to the baseline price of any given product.
Let's set aside the immediate inflationary pressures it adds and look only at someone taxed another, say, 5%. An average worker under a serious tax burden (and I do tend to label ours serious. Not terrible, but it's no joke either) looking higher to see an even higher tax burden, is extremely unlikely to take the risk of entrepreneureal enterprise, only to hit that next tax bracket as he struggles to keep his company off the ground.
Or working for the stoic conservative company, content to hold its place in the overweighted marketplace, never expanding, never hiring more.
Your need to elimate "wasteful earning"(?) is admirable, though I've mentioned it before Aces High is exactly the kind of lone venture excessive taxation discourages.
All of this ignoring for a moment that everyone seems to have accepted without question these types of taxes have led to an entire job sector of the economy that adds nothing to the economy, simply interprets jarbled tax code.
Towd, that's some chip you got there, the amatuer psychological conclusions to explain it are mind boggling, a topic to themselves.
