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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (283382)	4/7/2006 5:26:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573640

I'm claiming that the wealthy owe their wealth to the system of government and the social structure here The system of government doesn't take so much of their wealth as to keep them from being very wealthy, and it protect their wealth the same way it protects others against attack and theft. That doesn't mean they owe their wealth to the government. The social structure is the environment that the wealth is generated in, if the environment was different then people would have to act differently in order to obtain wealth in that environment. Its possible that it could be different in such a way as to make it almost impossible to accumulate and/or protect large amounts of wealth, but the fact that our environment is relatively favorable doesn't mean that the wealth is given to the wealthy or that they owe others for their wealth. For that they ought pay the upkeep of that environment in proportion to the wealth they have gained from it. They already pay more than a proportionate amount of their income.