>intellectual property, real property or personal property you are referring to is the product of all the risks and costs I'm talking about What? I'm sorry but

>intellectual property, real property or personal property you are referring to is the product of all the risks and costs I'm talking about What? I'm sorry but that went straight over my head. You said >... As an owner I wish this were true. For me and most owners I know work is mandatory, and its 60 hour weeks and a lot of sleepless nights. There is no safety net. There is no unemployment. I get no workman's compensation. I have no employment law protections. Its, as one HN comment said some time ago, "a suffering contest" a lot of the time. Which looks very much like something a startup owner, or atleast a new business owner would say. I can assure you a property owner will sing a very different tune. >And, that rent-seeking is very much taxed, contrary to the author's contention, at multiple levels and in many ways. The author didn't deny that. He just said how he was re-investing the income therefore isn't going to get taxed on the rent. This again tells me that you didn't read the article properly.