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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (8119)	12/28/2005 5:29:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543020

It would not be a good idea (and also very impractical) to let a "Donald Trump", or anbody else buy up all the ranch land, the wide open spaces, or beach front property, do anything they want with it, and pass it on to their children. Do you really consider this a serious risk? I don't. Even if this is a concern the level where it became a problem would be well above the level of wealth that anyone has ever achieved, both in absolute terms (inflation adjusted dollars or other currency) or in terms of percentage of the economy of the country or the world. Unfettered freedom is not possible. Totally unfettered freedom was never possible. Even on a frontier, or in primitive mostly anarchic hunter gatherer societies, people impose things on you. That statement is meaningless in the context of this conversation. No one is either asking for totally unfettered freedom, or asserting it is possible and desirable, or asking for anything that would require such a level of freedom. "The frontier days" and "unfettered freedom" are not concepts that are relevant to a conversation about whether or not a tax rate equal to or close to 100% is fundamentally unjust. Tim