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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Suma who wrote (37514)7/2/2005 11:19:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long   of 90947
 
I do think there has to be less disparity between the ultra rich,rich,middle class,poor and poverty stricken...
Why?

Our divisions are only growing right now . When one million dollars is paid to Trump for speaking... that's too much money.
Who are YOU to say? It appears there are groups of people perfectly happy to pay their own money in that aggregate amount to hear him. You claim some omniscience beyond them?

We have lost perspective.
On what? And who says so?

We put children in the hands of teachers who have been in the past underpaid.
Seemingly an implicit admission that they are now fairly paid. But if people are unwilling to teach for prevailing wages, they are certainly free to find other occupations. If enough do, wages will have to be raised to attract more people into teaching. Adam Smith's hand may be invisible, but it works.

..and expect our athletes who entertain us to receive billions..
Name me one athlete with a pay package that large.

And again, people are willing in aggregate to part freely with the money to pay their salaries. Who are you to tell them they can't? You sound like a would socialist dictator.

INEQUITY is what I am about.
Inequity to whom? To socialist dictators? The last batch that ran the Worker's Paradise in the USSR deserved to be shot.
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