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To: pieceofthepuzzle
The problem with this viewpoint is that it fails to take into account the fact that when people know up front that their efforts will not matter in the end because the government is going to take much of what their extra efforts earn them, they won't be making those extra efforts. Taxing heavily on the back end is a sure way to inhibit productivity and investment on the front end.

If I know a thief is waiting for me on my usual way home after work, I'm going to take a different way home. If the school yard bully is waiting to fleece me as I enter the gate, I'll take Dad's gun to school or drop out of school.

For being so smart, dems and libs and other socialists alway fail to take into consideration the natural response of those work. Thieves always feel they are entitled to our property.

35 posted on 09/01/2008 6:26:06 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting
“For being so smart, dems and libs and other socialists alway fail to take into consideration the natural response of those work. Thieves always feel they are entitled to our property.”

I agree. I think the stereotypical liberal viewpoint concerning ‘fairness’ and ‘equity’ is a primitive one, sometimes based on true concern, sometimes based on envy and less honorable human traits. I think most of us want others to do well and are troubled by the misfortune of others. Evidence of this is clear from the way people respond with their checkbooks and efforts when there's a natural disaster. But we also know that the reasons there is inequity in the world are many and inequity is not a simple matter of the ‘haves’ taking advantage of the ‘have nots’.

36 posted on 09/01/2008 6:53:36 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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