To: mrustow
Rich people got rich by inheritance, luck, hard work, marriage, athletic talent, intellectual talent, some other talent or some combination there of. I don't think we can confiscate the wealth of the "undeserving" because exactly who gets to decide who is "undeserving" and who is not. Beside, wealth confiscation has been nothing but a receipe for capital flight and eventual destruction of "capitalism" which needs capital to function. Capitalism may not be perfect, but it seems to be preferable to anything else that man has tried.
52 posted on
12/17/2002 8:43:38 AM PST by
staytrue
To: staytrue
Capitalism may not be perfect, but it seems to be preferable to anything else that man has tried.And this is not a perfect world never will be. Capitalism is the only system that gives true incentive. The rewards of socialism is power over others and few can have power so the rest share the misery.
I remember bygone days when loose talk trashed foreigners, the opposite sex, the other race and some other religions. Thats all unspeakable now so there is a vacuum that is being filled with hate for the rich. Once the rich become disenfranchized keeping out of the Gulags will become the new incentive.
77 posted on
12/17/2002 8:47:36 PM PST by
oyez
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