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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (8100)12/28/2005 11:37:36 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542970
 
I agree with most or all of the specific points in your argument. I just don't think this adds up to your conclusion.

We live in an interconnected world (this is not new but we are more interconnected than we used to be). Our acts effect other people. Sure that is all true.

Now please explain to me the connection between those ideas to the idea that collectively we have any right to impose limits on how wealthy people can be or to seize their wealth to an extent beyond what is required to support a reasonable share of government's costs.

You say in a general sense that there has to be some restrictions on what people can do in an interconnected world. I agree. There has to be some restrictions. Some of them are obvious, we can't go around shooting people, we can't recklessly endanger them by driving 100 mph on a residential street. We can't defraud others. But the fact that there has to be some restrictions doesn't support any and every possible restriction. It doesn't justify that we should, or even that the government should be able to impose the specific restriction that you are arguing for. Maybe you have a justification for the specific restriction but "we live in an interconnect world" isn't it.

Tim
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