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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (27172)	1/8/2003 8:24:41 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The problem with Corzine is not that he ostensibly wants to help the underclass. It is that he wants to do so by restraining the incentives of those who are better off. I do not think that the poor can do better only at the expense of the well-off, or for that matter, that somehow we are all better off if the rich are made poorer and the poor wealthier through taxes. Well-directed public spending, and a tax code that rewards personal saving, investment, and education is the answer, I think. Deliberately lengthening the welfare rolls or giving out checks without the right incentives is not particularly humane (if freedom is humane). Poverty is not so much an economic problem as it is a social problem. I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor. Mahatma Gandhi I do think that criminals should be force to surrender their profits. But criminality isn't just a matter of personal opinion, IMO.