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To: wonk who wrote (92614)	10/31/2008 9:43:32 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541637

"Great then is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme — either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy" Did Aristotle offer a road map to achieving "moderate and sufficient property for everyone? I can't fault his stated objective. What is at issue is the methodology for achieving it. Ironic it would be if by trying to achieve that perfect state of middle class property you used a methodology likely to produce that "rampant democracy" he warned of. That's the very point I have been arguing here off and on--once you have a minority of contributors, you end up with a "rampant democracy" of beneficiaries. And kill the goose that laid the golden egg. It seems to me that the source of that "moderate and sufficient property" matters. Incentives and opportunities for everyone to earn it--The American Dream--has to be better than forced redistribution based on the right to a share.