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America is supposed to mean freedom for individuals, not free riches for the masses.
by someguydave 6y ago
America is supposed to mean freedom for individuals, not free riches for the masses.
- mckirk 6y agoI'm not sure you'd want to live in that kind of America. We aren't talking about "free riches" here, we are talking about keeping a country and society stable. And I'm convinced you can't do that without keeping inequality of all kinds -- income, wealth, education -- in check, because you'd cripple the country and ultimately end up with revolts otherwise, and probably justifiedly so. Every individual benefits from the (infra)structure and stability that a country and society offers them, so pretending it's okay for someone to make millions by using those benefits and then turning their back and saying "yes but all this is now solely my own and taxation is theft" is kind of ridiculous.
- someguydave 6y agotaxation is not theft. it is also not charity.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoAmerica is supposed to mean freedom from hereditary aristocracy. If billionaire dynasties don't count as that, I don't know what does.
- throwawaytaxes1 6y agoI missed that part of the constitution, could you show it to me?