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Originally posted by Prince:
"People don't resent those who made the money through innovations and hard work, and thus earned it. But the great majority of the so-called rich people did not do this. They inherited the wealth they have, they did nothing whatsoever to accomplish it."
So it is your opinion that government is entitled to any wealth that isn't first generation?
Originally posted by filtherton:
"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."
That erroneous thinking is what I'm trying to address here. The rich don't owe an extra debt to society just because they can afford to pay it. Someone in their family earned it and it's theirs, not yours, not mine, theirs. That fundamental difference in philosophy is what separates us.
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