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Originally posted by Dostoevsky
Why is there such resentment for the rich in America today? Why do we hate the industrialist whose innovations and processes have created jobs and raised our standard of living?
There was a time when people like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Gates were the American dream. Now we're suspicious of anyone who succeeds in life. Well guess what folks. Their are people in this world who are smarter, harder working, and more successful than you and me. They're rich and they deserve to be. It's not governments job to redistribute their income to us through taxes or in this case, some stupid ass speeding ticket.
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Gosh, you make it sound like the logic behind proportional fines is that poor folks are jealous of rich folks. I know there are people in this world who are smarter and harder working than me. I also know that being smart and hard working doesn't make you rich, just ask our president, or paris hilton. As for "redistributing the wealth", the richest of us currently don't pay enough taxes to account for the amount of wealth that they control.
This isn't about "taking the rich down a notch". This is about handing out punishments that sting everybody, regardless of their wealth.