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"Why do you have a right to your money?"
On 2/15/2012 3:12 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 2/15/2012 1:33 PM, Hawke wrote: On 2/13/2012 11:18 AM, George Plimpton wrote: On 2/13/2012 11:12 AM, Hawke wrote: On 2/13/2012 8:17 AM, George Plimpton wrote: On 2/13/2012 12:11 AM, Larry wrote: In , says... Too much money already is taken from hard-working entrepreneurs and managers. That's true, but many of the wealthiest are simply leeches on society who produce nothing. They're not leeches on society in any way. The may not apply their labor effort to anything to generate new value, but that doesn't equate to being a leech. If they lawfully and ethically own assets that provide them with a financial return and they live off that, they are not leeches. A good way of equalizing things would be a graduated capital gains tax, that stepped up just like income tax does, with 15% being the bottom bracket and 38% being the top bracket. I see no valid reason to want to "equalize" anything. That's because you have a bizarre view of what "fairness" is. Nope. Fairness exists is when people who create value lawfully and ethically get to keep all of it without worrying about looters sending government agents to take it from them. Fairness is when those people who create value understand that they came into a society that aided them, provided a place for them to be free to do as they pleased, No, "society" did no such thing. "Society" doesn't *do* anything. Society is merely s description of people viewed together rather than in isolation. No debt *ever* is owed to "society" for having engaged in productive effort. If I'm sitting around on a weekend afternoon considering my options, and I think I can (a) sit around and watch sports on TV, or (b) go outside and repair something on my house, or (c) go across the street to my neighbor and repair something on his house in exchange for $100, "society" has no valid ethical claim on any part of the $100 if I choose (c). Your beliefs about society are 100% wrong. They have no basis in logic, ethics or law. You wouldn't have the choices you just described if it wasn't for the society that has been built here in the last 200 years by lots of other people. Hawke |
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