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To: TimF who wrote (240406)	7/7/2005 2:33:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

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. Look......I posted two articles that discredit your happy cheerleading poor rich folk who are only trying to make life better for all of it. You are chooing to ignore them. That doesn't make what you believe to be true. 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. It sure looks that way. And even our slice has remained the same, why do they deserve a bigger slice of the pie? Because the Paris Hiltons of the world work so hard? I don't think so. 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. Its does not mean that.....you are quoting from GOP dogma. It sounds good but it ain't real. "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. Let's worry about that one when we come to it. ted