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Rubbish. Individualism did not build the interstate highway system, or sewer systems or even the internet. Please put down Atlas Shrugged long enough to take a
by steveax 12y ago
Rubbish. Individualism did not build the interstate highway system, or sewer systems or even the internet. Please put down Atlas Shrugged long enough to take a look around you.
- jordanthoms 12y agoYeah, but what paid for that to be built? Taxes collected from individuals who succeeded.
- alchemism 12y agoActually the people who do not succeed (the lower-to-middle classes) pay far more in income taxes than the paltry capital gains taxes of the ultra-successful.
- wooter 12y agothe top 10% pay 70% or so of all income taxes.. the top 20, 90%
- tormeh 12y agoYeah, but the money is taken from the lower class and given to the overclass by the government through property rights and similar laws. Who pays how much for the common good is an uninteresting question, as money is simply resource allocation by the government/the-powers-that-be.
- vinceguidry 12y agoThe Internet wasn't built by private companies? Are you kidding? ARPANET might have been built by the DOD, but the Internet we use today is 100% built and owned by private companies.
- nmrm 12y ago> is 100% built and owned by private companies. You left off the part where de facto government granted monopolies helped build the capital base and in many cases directly funded infrastructure investments.