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To: tejek who wrote (180990)	1/19/2004 5:05:16 PM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 1572455

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To: tejek who wrote (180990)	1/19/2004 5:19:35 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572455

here's the point. The class warfare rhetoric, which you so beautifully illustrate, focuses on the "rich" (of whatever stripe is expedient for your current discussion) and promotes confiscation of property just because they're "wealthy" or because you don't think they deserve to have it. Like who the heck are you, or any politician for that matter, to make such a judgment? Maybe I disagree with the way you live your life or spend your money. Does that mean I should see to it that your money is taken from you? Of course not. Besides, confiscation of every so-called rich person's total assets would only have a short term effect on government debt. Then what? It's a stupid notion, just designed to make the not-rich feel better, without accomplishing anything. Second, as I've stated before, spending is the problem. I'm disinclined to give any politician more money just 'cause they want it to buy votes, which is really what it's all about. The whole discussion about the tax system and the persistent "rich do not pay their fair share" mantra, which practically every Dem contender espouses, is designed to appeal to rank jealousies of their constitutencies. And you are evidently foremost among them, sorry to say.