"Pierre Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > Your hypothesis is intriguing, but I would think that a better way to > explian why rich tax protestors are rare is simply that the opportunity > cost of their time is high and, so, the cost of collective action is much > higher for them. (It is true, though, that their expected benefits might be > higher since, indeed, they are more likely to have an influence.) The proper reference for comparison would be: what percentage of politically active rich people are against progressive taxes, vis-a-vis the same fraction for poor and middle class people? > Moreover, some wealthy individuals do support libertarian organizations, > which is a way to be a tax protestor at a lower cost (for them). Like above, are a higher percentage of rich folks libertarian than among middle class and poor people? I would guess so, but I would also say a higher percentage of rich people are left/liberal than among the general population -- chalk it up to overeducation. > A standard anomaly: people like Bill Gates, who supports all the PC causes > espoused by the tyrant who persecutes him! Ralph Ellison (CEO of Oracle) must really hate his guts. Did Ralph Ellison whine about Gates and Microsoft on behalf of the anti-trust suit, like the Netscape and Sun people? Sourav Mandal ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle" ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"
