Some of my best friends are very rich — people with condos on Central Park West and tastefully refurbished palazzi in Italy.
The puzzle: Why do so many of them vote Democratic or praise the high-taxing European welfare state?
How rich? When one of them had an art lover on the phone, who was offering to pay $30 million for a famous painting, he refused. Frustrated, the would-be buyer groaned: "Look, man, I just more than doubled the going price for this piece, and you still won't take it. Why not?"