Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Redistribute the Wealth

You cannot "redistribute the wealth"; it is impossible. The reason is because there is no such thing as "the wealth". There is your wealth and my wealth and Bill Gates' wealth. But there is no "the wealth". The very term assumes a communist mindset. If the state controls all, it effectively owns all.

Eat the Rich?

Why are people completely unable to make an argument against raising taxes?

The only defense seems to be offered for not raising taxes on the wealthy is that the wealthy create jobs and if you tax them they won't create as many jobs. That seems to imply that the wealthy have a duty to hire people. And the more of their money they get to keep, the more people they have a duty to hire. If that is true, than government has defined what they can do with their money, and it's not theirs anyway. That is government exercising indirect control over the means of production, which is fascism.

How about this simple argument: It is wrong to take people's money...because it is THEIRS!

Somebody make that argument and I'll vote for you.