Funny how this never had worked isn't it?

On Feb 4, 2015, landmark wrote:

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Funny how this never had worked isn't it?

AFAIK, every modern country taxes its people.

On Feb 4, 2015, Dannydoyle wrote:
What gives you the right to redistribute any wealth morally? Where does that right come from? One has more so you decide how much is enough and redistribute based on that?

Funny how this never had worked isn't it?

The problem isn't the rich. The problem is your leviathan government. But then again those are so often one in the same.

On Feb 3, 2015, tommy wrote:
Very nice illusion: There are no forests, there are only individual trees. Forests are merely an abstraction.

On Feb 4, 2015, landmark wrote:
1) Illustration, as it helps to have an easily imagined visual when thinking about these things. We can use ten chairs and ten people too. One rich person (much less of course) takes up 4 chairs while the other 9 have to scramble for a piece of the remaining 6 chairs.

2) Danny was distraught that some rich people might get screwed out of the lifeboat. My Bill Gates remark was to reassure him that Bill would land on his feet. He'd still have plenty of room in that lifeboat, even if wealth were substantially re-distributed.

3) Practical how of it? Start with taxing capital gains at the same level as income tax, get rid of the Social Security rich person entitlement discount, enact a stock transfer tax. And for Lord's sake, stop boo-hooing that then you'll only be able to afford ten mansions instead of twenty.

On Feb 4, 2015, NYCTwister wrote:

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On Feb 4, 2015, Slim King wrote:
I think the TIME you were born is more important.

Why?

On Feb 4, 2015, landmark wrote:

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Well John do you prefer a screw you get out of the lifeboat because too many who look like you are already in attitude?

Imagine a large lifeboat with a hundred seats. A hundred people get on the boat. Imagine, further, each seat represents 1% of the nation's wealth and each person represents 1% of the nation's population.

Then, if the 1% rich own 40% of the wealth--as they do in this country-- that means, by analogy, 1 person gets to take up 40 of those seats. The other 99 people have to scramble for a piece of the other 60 remaining seats.

So Bill Gates will not drown even if he gives up 35 of his seats.

On Feb 4, 2015, rockwall wrote:

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On Feb 4, 2015, landmark wrote:

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Well John do you prefer a screw you get out of the lifeboat because too many who look like you are already in attitude?

Imagine a large lifeboat with a hundred seats. A hundred people get on the boat. Imagine, further, each seat represents 1% of the nation's wealth and each person represents 1% of the nation's population.

Then, if the 1% rich own 40% of the wealth--as they do in this country-- that means, by analogy, 1 person gets to take up 40 of those seats. The other 99 people have to scramble for a piece of the other 60 remaining seats.

So Bill Gates will not drown even if he gives up 35 of his seats.

That would be a great illustration IF like a single lifeboat with 100 seats there was a fixed amount of money available in the world. Since that's not true, it kinda sucks as an illustration.

Imagine instead an ulimited number of potential lifeboats that 'could' be built but 50% of the people aren't interested in helping build them, only in using them.

On Feb 4, 2015, Dannydoyle wrote:
Give your water bottle to others. Give YOUR seat to others. Don't tell me what I am obligated to do with mine.