Words are inadequate

He lives in a Seattle suburb, and there's nowhere to park in downtown Seattle. (Actually it's his wife that takes transit. I think that his current office is in a place he can drive.)

I've become a convert to the idea of taxing assets. I'm actually less enthralled about taxing income: why 'punish' people for doing something useful? Wealth is one way of determining how much you can afford to contribute to keep the state running, and property (in whatever form) is just non-liquid wealth. I think that at the point where you concede that 1) taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilised society, and 2) the rich are going to pay "disproportionately" more taxes based on whatever measure of taxation, arguing about what precisely gets measured and taxed is, to quote Apocryphal Winston Churchill, quibbling over the price.

"I got all this on my own" is an argument against point 2. I believe in point 2 because a) the rich get disproportionately more use out of government than the poor, even accounting for services targeted at the poor like subsidized housing or welfare, and b) not doing that leads to an aristocracy (much like we got now) and I'm fundamentally opposed to that. Which I guess makes me a filthy commie.

Shorter: eat the rich, because the poor are too stringy.