Hi Max
Michael Lorrey suggested
>>people have the quirky notion that you can make everything
>>equal for everyone without stealing anything from anybody, or annoying
>>anyone
To which Max replied
>... I find it is fair to steal money [to]
>"Making the rich 2% unhappier to make the poor 200% happier"
That is Marx in a nutshell: property is theft, ergo theft is justice. Unfortunately,even in the Utilitarian cloths in which you dress your wolf, the sums don't compute.
>taking money away from the wealthy and
>investing them in other peoples education/helping the poor can eventually
>make the wealthier even wealthier.
Nope. It just makes people stop work. Galt's Gulch. There are quite nice equations for this now. In New Zealand the Treasury suggests that the optimal tax rate to maximise GNP and government income is in the mid 20s.
>btw. I am considdered to be right wing here in Denmark :-)
I guess that is because people forget that Denmark had an explicit
eugenics program to enhance the IQ of its population ;-) Skin heads
keeping out "inferior" colours of immigrant is also suggests
best,
tim
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