These folks talk about the unfairness, as if God would look down and hate people because they have money while others don't.
They profess to know exactly what God thinks. How about this then?
Exodus 20:17
You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
Fix your own life Lefties, and leave your fellow man alone.
Rich people employ others directly and indirectly. If you kill their wealth, you kill the benefit of that wealth.
If the government liquidates wealth, it spends it once. Then it's gone.
If the wealthy continue to be, they build more wealth and their money increases the benefits to others.
Trump is worth billions. At the same time, he directly employed over 25,000 people. He also indirectly employed many others buy purchasing goods, services, and other things.
What would have happened if the government stepped in and took away his wealth?
He would not have been able to employ more people. The government would have destroyed people's lives, far removed from Trump, by taking his wealth.
People need to get off this "them vs us kick". It's very destructive.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Those are the opening words of the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto. Them versus us is the sentiment. So long as this false premise continues to be believed as if it were gospel, the them-versus-us cycle will continue uninterrupted and unabated. (The only thing that Marx got right is the “common ruin” bit, but not for the cause he postulates.)
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman—in a word, oppressor and oppressed—stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted now-hidden now-open fight; a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes. …
We are all ‘rich’ in this nation and have way far ‘more’ than we need. So getting richer is just more of more.
But I agree with Capitalism and never slight those who can build and donate and make life better for the rest of us. most would not have jobs without the wealthy... lots of medical breakthroughs wouldn’t happen, hospitals built and vehicles for all our emergency workers etc.etc. are often not possible without the wealthy investors.
And I do not believe their wealthy should have to be redistributed among those who haven’t earned it....ever!