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Originally Posted by moosenose
If the rich don't spend their money, why should they be taxed on it? What's the point in having money if you can't spend it? It's just pieces of paper that is worthless unless you can do something with it.
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Because so many jealous people want it.
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Originally Posted by moosenose
Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is a sure-fire way to ensure that there's large-scale animosity between the classes. And a man's hands do not belong in another man's pocket.".
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You've come to the wrong place. My estimation is that 75% of the people here think they're entitled to the money of anyone who makes more than they do. There's no shortage of comments in this "Politics" area of the desires for, and plans for, other people's money.
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Originally Posted by moosenose
It's also a recipe for disaster, in that the people realize that they can vote themselves "largesse from the public treasury".
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"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."
-Frederic Bastiat
He died in 1850, but a lot of people today still don't understand that concept.