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To: tejek who wrote (237858)	6/18/2005 8:29:45 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571926

The wealthy always tend to get wealthier at the expense of the poor. Do the educated get smarter at the expense of the stupid? Do the healthy live longer lives at the expense of the unhealthy? How would you like to redistribute the highs? Other than the way liberals have already put smart kids with dumb kids and ended up with a bunch of dumb kids?

To: tejek who wrote (237858)	7/7/2005 1:28:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571926

The wealthy always tend to get wealthier at the expense of the poor. No usually they get wealthier by creating new wealth, or helping wealth to be created, or if you count this as "becoming wealthy", through inheriting it from other wealthy people. The wealthy in the US might have "a bigger slice of the pie" than they used to have, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have a piece that is smaller, even if it is smaller as a percentage. As economies become more specialized, and education and skills become more and more important compared to simple labor its natural that those who don't have education and skills will create, and will have, a smaller percentage of the overall wealth. That doesn't mean that the upper middle class and the rich are taking wealth away from others, it means they are creating more wealth. "Having the government take more and more wealth away from the wealthy isn't the part to stability but rather to economic disruption and sometimes economic catastrophe." I have never seen that happen. Then you haven't looked very hard. Any number of countries have had to cut back, or at least trim the growth of wealth transfer programs as they became too much of a weight on the economy. Tim