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Originally Posted by GMontag
Wow. Someone needs a course on logic. Look up the fallacy of false analogy.
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Fully versed in the idea, thanks. Had logic in college. Yes, this analogy is a bit out there but unfortunately it takes these kinds of analogies to get a lot of folks to think about it from a different view.
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Originally Posted by GMontag
The point of wealth redistribution is not to make the recipients "feel good". The point is to create a stable economy, reduce crime and lawlessness, and to prevent threats to democracy due to excessive wealth concentration.
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My apologies if I gave you the idea that I thought the point was to make recipients "feel good". Not my point at all. My point is actually directed more at the idea that if society is going to penalize me for working hard and being a success, where is my motivation? I have none.
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Originally Posted by GMontag
I find it amazing how many people try to base economic systems on naive notions of fairness and rights, instead of on reality and practical methods of creating stability. After all, what is the point of a "fair" system if it simply collapses under its own ill-conceived rules?
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And I find it amazing how many people try to justify stealing from the rich to give to the poor while maintaining the naive notion that those with real ability and drive will continue to allow themselves to be used by that society indefinitely. There has to be balance. I doubt that any person of wealth in this nation would argue against some form of taxation. It is not reasonable to expect to run the nation without it. It is just as unreasonable to expect our best and brightest to be the checkbook for the whole country.