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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9694)1/25/2006 9:02:39 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541353
 
I look upon it as an issue of fairness....t's the kind of think the market should decide.

I'm finding your point inconsistent. If you define fairness as whatever the market decides then it's not unfair that some people's labor is rewarded in the form of a salary and other people's labor is rewarded in the form of growing assets. Salaries end when you stop working. Assets endure. It's the simple nature of things. The government treats assets as assets when you die regardless of how you came by them and equal treatment is as fair as it gets.

since that is one of the only businesses that an individual can easily enter (except for Amway of course).

Huh? If you're a plumber, you can work for a salary or go into business for yourself. Most knowledge work can be done either under salary or by contract. We have a lot of real estate agents because that's something that can be done part time or on one's own schedule, not because there aren't other business opportunities.
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