Tremelune posted:
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I have trouble understanding the practical opposition to moving in this direction. Unless you are a billionaire, you will gain financially. If you are a billionaire, your happiness is no longer tied to your wealth, even if the majority of it were to disappear overnight.
It is risky to conclude that an opposing viewpoint on a complex issue is ignorant or inferior.
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Your rationale for 'moving in this direction' and inability to understand the opposition to it, is simply to "stick it to those rich people" and wanton greed. We've been 'moving in this direction' since before FDR with near confiscatory tax rates for the rich and leaving nearly 50% at the bottom who pay none of the federal income tax burden. And nobody is happy. Certainly not the poor, who also rake in untold largess from the state (provided by the rich), and the rich who spend inordinate amounts of time protecting their wealth. I am not a rich man by any measure, but why should I suddenly become happy taking ill gained money from the rich? Unless I'm a jealous, vindictive, spiteful person.
The opposing points of view on this thread, from mine, are certainly naïve and may well be wrong-headed. I am not of the opinion that all values and opinions are equally merited. Some ideas, as the one espoused on this thread and politicians from the left, are just plain wrong.
Cheers,
Tom
PS: Had to chuckle that your number of posts is "666"!!