You are redefining "parasite" to mean "someone who refuses under any circumstances to take anything that doesn't belong to him, nor to harm anyone else's person or property." The opposite of "parasite" is someone like yourself, a "productive, cooperative" member of society, who considers it his right to use roads paid for with money stolen from "the rich".
The probability is roughly 85% that I pay more than you in taxes. (If you have a graduate degree, the probability is about 50%, and if you have a doctoral degree, the probability is about 25%.) But the top 1% of earners pay 34% of the cost of those roads you ride on; the bottom 50% pay none of the cost.
In short, you are 85% likely to be a parasite leaching off me, and you're 99% certain to be a parasite leaching off the top 1% of income earners. But I'm a parasite. Can you lend me a Newspeak dictionary so I can keep up with you?
Not my assertion but instead your attribution to me.
The opposite of "parasite" is someone like yourself, a "productive, cooperative" member of society, who considers it his right to use roads paid for with money stolen from "the rich".
Again, not my assertion but instead your attribution to me.
The probability is roughly 85% that I pay more than you in taxes. (If you have a graduate degree, the probability is about 50%, and if you have a doctoral degree, the probability is about 25%.) But the top 1% of earners pay 34% of the cost of those roads you ride on; the bottom 50% pay none of the cost.
Probability based on what? I know about all the statistics and tables and so forth but as to categorizing each of us relative to the other you only know enough about you to do so and maybe not that much. You’re figuring the probability based on the entire sample but I can’t see that enough of that bottom 50% participate in a forum like this to allow you to figure the probability you claim. Your sample is off.
In short, you are 85% likely to be a parasite leaching off me, and you're 99% certain to be a parasite leaching off the top 1% of income earners. But I'm a parasite. Can you lend me a Newspeak dictionary so I can keep up with you?
Why do you think that, in our society (it’s an assumption on my part that you believe in the existence of society) that being in the top 1% of income earners keeps you from being a parasite? It depends on the value (undefined term) provided in exchange for the income. Who provides more value, a teacher with ten years experience or a first year second string player in some professional sport? What’s the income of each?
If you’re that high up the income scale and you’re paying all your taxes I will say good for you. Especially considering your views as I recall them. Even if you’re not smart enough yourself to figure ways out of paying all of them you could hire somebody to do it for you.
I have to wonder what you do to earn such a high income but I won’t ask because thinking back on your posts I surmise it might be illegal. (By my terms of course, not yours.) It can’t be anything intellectual because what I see of your thinking has all the substance, composition and consistency of a fresh cow pie.