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To: average joe who wrote (48695)	3/9/2014 5:07:41 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Charity must come from their surplus -- and not a surplus wrung from them by coercive taxation, but whatever surplus they voluntarily chose to allot for this purpose. And then she described how an industrialist could do much more good by keeping his company solvent and his employees on the payroll than by selling it and giving the proceeds to charity. And unless I came up with some new ideas on this subject, she indicated, she considered the subject closed, not to be brought up again." Rand was incredible. And she seems to have read everything pertinent to her philosophy. Pertinent to anything, actually. Of course, she was big on education and science since her early grades. And she never stopped reading or learning...