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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (204729)	9/29/2006 3:11:35 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The money belongs to whoever put it there. You're talking about cheating besides, the vast majority of people won't hit the $1 m or the $3 m anyway. Contrary to popular yammering from rightwingers, family farms don't hit it either. We're talking about the Bushies and the Waltons. Buffet didn't want to leave his vast fortune to his kids because, heck, it can ruin people. The Gates aren't doing that either although no one is going hungry. Bill Gates Sr says it takes a village to raise a millionaire. Yep. It does. This is a community effort with the luck of the draw going to a lucky few (also per Buffet) who receive outsized rewards for the same effort. It's still a community effort and the survival of the community is still more important than the Waltons wishing to become trillionaires. Think about the theory of slavery. You're not having to pay a dime in wages but you are having to take care of people for the rest of their lives whether or not they do a lick of work for you. You can threaten and cajole but that only goes so far in motivating people to do a good job for you. Do you think employers would prefer to have slaves instead of minimum wage employees? Would you want to fly in a plane made by slaves?