I lifted this from a post in the full tilt forum. Thought it was interesting.
The poker table is no place for love and affection it's a cold game filled with cold people who want to take your cold hard cash. Some at the table are professionals, sharks, who prey on the timid and untalented. Most, however, have “real” jobs. Rabbis, teachers, Hollywood producers, strippers, students, accountants, Kucinich liberals, Buchanan conservatives, IT professionals. Some are better than others, but the one common thread they share is the love of winning, and winning big too.
Poker is a game of American Capitalism at its purest form. A multitude of races, cultures, creeds, and religions all gather around a felt table in order to viciously take money out of their peers’ pocket. Every single poker player at the table KNOWS that he is better than the guy sitting next to him. They are there for the sole reason of taking that sucker's money. It’s a kind of Poker Darwinism; only the smartest survive with their bankrolls intact. There is no health care for the professional poker player, nor welfare. It is one of the only legal tests of true fortitude and grit left in this world. It is mano y mano combat. No one at the poker table has ever said to the chip leader, “Hey buddy, I don’t think its fair you have most of the chips, even though you did earn it through your adroit and often inspired play. I think we should implement a progressive tax plan in this casino so that the top 20% of the money winners have to give 40% of their earnings back to crappiest players.”
No, I don’t think that would ever happen. Indeed, what would happen to the poker community if something like that were to occur? Let’s make an outrageous assumption and say that people would still actually play in a casino that enforces this rule through whatever means. The incentive of being a winning poker player would almost all be lost. Poker players would each try to earn enough to make a living for themselves, but not make so much as to get themselves into the top 20% of total players. This would indeed be counter-productive. Let us imagine even further that all of the money won or lost at the table would be redistributed to all of the players equally. Well, this would be utterly silly because no one would even bother playing anymore because there would be no real way to keep score.
This is of course, the fundamental flaw in Communism and indeed the fundamental flaw in the progressive tax. There is no coincidence that Ho Chi Minh stated that the foundation to modern Communism is the progressive tax. Hillary Clinton is a staunch supporter of this progressive tax system. Just something to think about.
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Ms Clinton and Bill are workin on it!
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