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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (246725)	8/20/2005 12:34:40 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571896

>So where in your nuance would you like to decide how much Gates should be paid compared to the janitor? We don't have to decide... I'm not talking about regulating pay scales. I'm talking about a small amount of income redistribution to make sure that the janitor doesn't starve. >I cure cancer, how much should I be paid? The market will decide that (though the market can be manipulated by government). The government just decides how much of the income that you and people that make as much money as you is redistributed to make sure that people that didn't cure cancer don't live on the streets, still leaving you with a really good life. If the government takes 40% of your 10 million dollar a year income and redistributes that, you still come out 6 million ahead. >Socialism has one problem, it's called an "Overseer". Y'all don't have a problem with gov't overseeing our sex lives; why shouldn't it oversee our economic ones? -Z