[NO-SPAM] Income Inequality

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Nothing in what you've said here is inconsistent with what I've written, or believe.

I believe there should be a safety net, provided by our society, to ensure people don't fall through the cracks. That safety net should be mapped to people who genuinely need it. People who don't need it shouldn't get it.

There are places of genuine need in our world, and that need can be met with money, and it is immoral to be extravagantly wealthy in light of that need.

EDIT: Not to sidetrack, since I think this is really a red herring, but when someone says 'You remind me of someone', they are implicitly making a comparison. That's how it works.

Joe, you remind me of a bloated child rapist.

money is not a magical solution that cures bad decisions. having it or lacking it is a result of decisions. also you're talking about money as if the superrich are keeping it in a huge vault ala scrooge mcduck. their real wealth is investments, that creates products and services and jobs for people to work. the more you take away from that the less needs get met. also the more you reward something the more you get of it. rewarding people for being poor is - again - not a cure for poverty. walter williams wrote a bit on the first thanksgiving that drives this point home http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewi...l_nonsense

the same is equally true for punishment - punishing people for being exceptional is blatantly wrong and aggressively counterproductive on more levels than i care to count. the worst of it is that this idea is traced back to marx's ideas about product value being an inherent fixture of the product itself. if you dont adhere to that then you lose on this point entirely

and you're the one that couched your talking points in terms of economic classes, rich vs poor, and wealth envy. if you dont want to be lumped together with typical class warriors then you should stop talking like one.