Entrepreneurs and businessmen routinely add immense value to our civilization by their activities, and the Left routinely proposes stripping them of their wealth and property as a reward.
How does the typical leftist see Bill Gates, who has probably done more for human productivity than most other living people?
How does the typical leftist see anyone who has been productive, provided a need, increased the living standards of America, and gotten rich doing it?
Kill him and eat him. In the case of the death tax, in that order.
Nice "payback."
I love how the word "society" is used to somehow mush us all into one great redistributive lump. Avoids the messy details of who's on the giving end, who's on the receiving end, and most importantly, who gets to pass the cash around and gain political power doing it.
"Society" should pay people back for what they've provided sounds a lot better than "those who have money should have it taken from them so 'society' can give it to those who don't." Hmmmm...starting to narrow down exactly who "society" is.
The idea that one owns what one has earned has always stuck in the craw of the Left, and they have gone to great effort to try and redefine things to get away from this idea. The word "society" also shows up a lot in these efforts.
You also show a complete misunderstanding of the relationship between money and value, which is also not that surprising.
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"Society owes them?" You really want to go there?
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- Serious Insecurities concerning Social Security 'Reform'
- My plan to reform Social Security
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- If it "over-funds" the system, just cut the tax rate. Simple. (n/t)
- The system is currently overfunded as it is
- Not if it is to become a VESTED system with assets backing liabilities.
- re: The system is currently overfunded as it is
- I could live with that.
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- Not to mention the dark secret that people are only just realizing..
- The only true fix for SS
- More to the point
- re: No big secret.
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- So the fix is to simply confiscate more and more money?
- Further, they always claim that it must get worse and worse
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Does anyone else see the political weirdness here?
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- The DNC choice to take the position that after all the years of claiming there was a crisis, now there isn't one, will not hold up. (n/t)
- again
- correction, misread something Tom said
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- What Ed said.
- Very good points
- My plan to reform Social Security