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Originally posted by wonderwench
cthulhu -
You are correct: the Framers did not want to forcibly redistribute wealth. So why should we advocate doing so today? The most telling comment is that taxes should be proportional to "what may be annually spared by the individual". Taxes should not burden the individual in ways which harm his ability to take care of his responsibilities and liberty. A germaine concept is to avoid taxation without representation. Who is to be the judge as to what an individual may "spare"?
When any minority is preyed upon with taxes because a majority is able to aggregate votes to seize their property, it is wrong.
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You seem to have missed the part where i said distibute all wealth EQUALLY. The constitution gives congress the power to levy taxes, which is an implicit acceptance of the redistribution of wealth.
You also appear to have missed this quote entirely, so here it is again:
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Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is
to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the
higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they
rise." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785.
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