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To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/24/2010 10:27:34 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574852

>> OR AT LEAST TOO MUCH RICHER THAN THE POOR. STUDY FINDS 92% PREFER SWEDISH MODEL I agree. The Walton family is too rich. They also employee 2.1 million unskilled, otherwise unemployable people in this country.

To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/24/2010 10:32:33 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574852

selfish jealous people. give me a dollar

To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/24/2010 12:04:06 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574852

Bentway, > The people polled by the Harvard Business School researchers—a randomly selected sample representing various income groups—were asked to choose between unlabeled pie charts showing America's distribution of wealth and Sweden's, where the richest 20% control only 36% of the country's wealth. Asked which of the two they'd rather live in, 92% preferred Sweden's wealth distribution. Replace Sweden with Cuba, North Korea, or any other communist country and you might get a different response. The billionaire founder of Facebook just donated $100M to NJ schools. Maybe the Harvard researchers can poll people and ask whether he should have a billion dollars in the first place. Tenchusatsu

To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/24/2010 12:45:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574852

A couple liberal professors hired an online survey company to do a sample telling them that Americans really do want socialism and wealth redistribution after all. Yawn.

To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/26/2010 3:45:28 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574852

“Redistribution” of Wealth If a man proposes to redistribute wealth, he means explicitly and necessarily that the wealth is his to distribute. If he proposes it in the name of the government, then the wealth belongs to the government; if in the name of society, then it belongs to society. No one, to my knowledge, did or could define a difference between that proposal and the basic principle of communism. “The Dead End,” The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 20, AR

To: bentway who wrote (587261)	9/27/2010 8:37:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574852

No the poll doesn't show that 92% prefer the Swedish model. It shows that 92% prefer one specific possible result from the Swedish model in the context of Sweden, which likely would not be the result here even if we tried copying their policies. Preferring their model would either mean preferring the model for its own sake, or preferring the total combination of results. They study just found people like the idea of more income equality, not that they find the Swedish model to be better.