> Brian wrote: > This notion that the wealthy are somehow "evil" and should be doubly taxed > represents my biggest beef with the left. But then, i'm an admitted > capitalist. >
Well, first I think the pursuit of wealth turns a fundamentally destructive (evil?) trait of humans, greed, into force for good. So I don't think the wealthy, or wealth, is evil. Nor do I think that moral responsibility for economic success and capitalism are mutually exclusive. But let's remove the emotions and look at a geometric curve: The percentage of those that control our country's resources has been dropping while the amount of resources each controls has been growing over the last 100 years. Currently about the top 1% of our nation's earners control about 50% of it's wealth and those percentages are changing as previously described. At what point does revolt happen? I think we can look to the birth of our country, the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution for ideas. The point is that at some point, unless you're part of that shrinking 1% you'll favor a redistribution of wealth - possibly by violence as your ancestors did. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:147567 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
