Sounding off: We don't deserve the wealthy's money
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not. Elon Musk, for example, is a producer. He invented PayPal, made Tesla an industry leader and is taking humankind to Mars with SpaceX. What have you and I done that is comparable? He, just like many ot...