I’d take this article with a shaker full of salt. I would think the prospect of lawyers (see e.g. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Pasqualle) running the medical profession would be welcomed by Doctors everywhere…and with the inevitability of (insert name of a Dem candidate) being our next president, how can the prospect of a government run by Dems for the betterment of us all not put a hop in every lawyers step.

As you should know, doctors and lawyers are actually the most charitable people in the world – no profession provides more free (pro bono) services than these two, and whatever profession is third is not even close. On the legal side, those attorneys in private practice, and at big firms in particular, donate millions of dollars in services each and every year.

Thus, one should be careful in advocating the tax increase/legal services program you discuss. Increasing taxes on “the wealthiest” – already tagged at between 40 and 50 percent, all in – could result in these generous purveyors of free services having to cut back on their charity, a perverse result indeed.

Huh? Where are “economists” and “journalists” subject to state limits on employment? And “journalists” are not a highly paid profession overall (it’s like book authors – there’s a few big money earners, but the median income is pretty low).