We live in different worlds
A group of youngsters did a smash and grab at a Louis Vitton store on Michigan Avenue tonight.
One of the items they grabbed was a $50,000 purse. A purse. $50,000.
Now, what they did was wrong. They will be caught, because there are too many cameras watching us these days.
What do you do with a $50,000 purse? Give it to your mother? Or girl? Keep it for yourself?
I can't imagine owning a purse that costs more than a car or two, a teacher's first year of teaching salary, or a small house.
I know, I am jealous of opportunity and success knocking on someone else's door. I am jealous of people with million dollar salaries and 10 million dollar homes.
I think that's why I like a progressive tax, where the people who own $50,000 purses pay more in taxes proportionally than the people working in the store making minimum wage pay. Not stated very well, is it?
And I am not advocating stealing from the rich simply because they are rich.
I just think that sometimes our society is out of whack. Sometimes.
I just hope those thieves don't use the purse to carry tuna fish sandwiches to school. That too would be a crime.
Peace and Love
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