From: Max M (maxm@maxmcorp.dk)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 09:25:12 MST
From: Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net>
>Nah, we've just gotten a lot more subscribers from Europe, New Zealand and
>Australia. Consequently, the number of people with socialist leanings has
>gone up. They seem to have this quirky notion that you can make everything
>equal for everyone without stealing anything from anybody, or annoying
anyone
First of I must say that I find death to be the ultimate form of loss of
freedom.
In my POW there is a scale of freedom that goes like this:
Absolute Freedom -> Wealth -> middle class wealth -> annoying lack of
money ->
Powerty -> inability to feed one self properly -> No food at all -> Death
I think that being poor is the ultimate form of imprissonment there is. Just
slightly better than death.
Therefore I find it is fair to steal money from those who has "wealth" and
"middle class wealth" to help those who has "powerty" or less.
"Making the rich 2% unhappier to make the poor 200% happier"
When that is done I also believe that ultimately those people should be able
to feed themself. Therefore I find it to be a good idea to steal even more
money from the more wealthy, to give the poor a free education. Then they
will become a productive part of society and there will be an ROI that will
benefit all of the society.
The educated mind is the greatest raw material there is.
Economics is a win win scenario, and taking money away from the wealthy and
investing them in other peoples education/helping the poor can eventually
make the wealthier even wealthier as society as a whole becomes wealthier
and the newly rich start spending their money.
I think this is obvious from watching history. I would rather be poor and
unemployed today in Denmark than I would want to be King Richard of England
:-)
And no. I don't believe that the individual investor and the invisible hand
will automatically find a similar solution. At least not without the
consquences being to big for the poor.
Another thing though is the level of taxation taking place now, which I find
has reached absurd proportions. At least here in Denmark. I currently pay at
least 65% of my total income to different taxes! This I do find rather
enslaving.
btw. I am considdered to be right wing here in Denmark :-)
Hilsen/regards
Max M Rasmussen
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