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To: Torie
I will.
Thank you. This is precisely my point. So what your arguing is not economics, but ethics.

Another point. When we enrich the majority at the expense of a minority--on grounds of class, in this case--first, we undermine the notion of equality before the law. Second, and most important, no conceptual, logical, dialectical, or even material limit exists on the claims of the majority for the incomes and assets of the minority, i.e. those enjoying the benefits of appropriating the incomes of others have no incentive to ever vote for any other policy than an ever more steeply progressive rate of taxation.
20 posted on 12/22/2002 1:04:15 PM PST by Asclepius
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To: Asclepius
Second, and most important, no conceptual, logical, dialectical, or even material limit exists on the claims of the majority for the incomes and assets of the minority, i.e. those enjoying the benefits of appropriating the incomes of others have no incentive to ever vote for any other policy than an ever more steeply progressive rate of taxation.

Correctomundo.

22 posted on 12/22/2002 1:05:47 PM PST by The Great Satan
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To: Asclepius
Just prudential limits. One doesn't want to kill the goose the lays the golden eggs.
27 posted on 12/22/2002 1:13:54 PM PST by Torie
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