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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by bpodgursky on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:27AM (#11365981)
And on top of that, a doctor is only in the 1% for a fraction of their actual career.

Four years of school, many of residency, maybe specialty, those salaries are to a large degree paying off accumulated debt and opportunity cost.

It would be cruel to try to take even more of that highly delayed income in taxes.

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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by bsbechtel on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:35AM (#11366007)
I agree with you regarding taxes, although I don't anyone can honestly say that having more doctors and other highly educated professionals is bad for society. Requiring 12+ years of education to do some of the menial tasks doctors do, that could be done cheaper by someone with less schooling, would also be beneficial to everyone. The same goes for requiring a 4 year college degree that costs +$50,000 for many non-professional jobs.
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Re:Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to ... by tamana on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:18PM (#11366460)
This is how medicine works today. Most US health-care is provided by nurses and Physicians Assistants which have roughly the education that doctors had 70 years ago.
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