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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1571927)	11/15/2025 2:50:23 AM
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Did someone mention Ayn Rand? Ayn Rand’s Perspective 1. “Tax the rich, pay the people, spread the power.” ? She’d call this moral theft. Rand believed that: Wealth belongs to the people who produce it, Taking it by force (through taxation) is sanctioned robbery, and Redistributing it is punishing virtue to reward non-virtue. To her, this slogan would represent altruism as coercion — forcing successful individuals to serve others by law. She’d call it: “A moral inversion in which creators are sacrificed to non-creators.” 2. The idea that “billionaires shouldn’t hold the power.” ? She’d call that envy disguised as justice. Rand argued that: Political movements aimed at diminishing the wealthy are fuelled by resentment, not fairness. “Equality” movements often attack excellence, productivity, and achievement, not actual injustice. She’d say this group defines “power” as “success,” and seeks to destroy people because they are successful. 3. A group of wealthy people advocating higher taxes on themselves? ? She’d call it moral preening. Rand called this “the sanction of the victim” — when achievers endorse the forces attacking them. Her view: “If a millionaire wants to give his wealth away, let him. But he has no right to demand the state force others to do the same.” She would see “Patriotic Millionaires” as: collectivist, altruism-worshipping, virtue-signalling, and acting as “useful idiots” for statism. 4. Eliminating wealth disparity? ? She’d call this the destruction of freedom itself. Rand believed that: Inequality is natural in a free society, People unequal in talent, effort, intelligence, and ambition will produce unequal results, Attempts to equalize outcomes require government totalitarianism. She’d say: “You cannot make men equal except by bringing them down.” 5. “Making sure politicians know who really holds the power… and it’s not the billionaires.” ? She’d call this a lie. Rand argued that political power = the power of force, and economic power = the power of voluntary exchange. So she’d reject the entire framing: Politicians hold the guns. Businesses hold money but cannot force anyone. Her famous line applies: “Political power is the power of the gun. Economic power is the power to create.” Rand’s Verdict in One Sentence Ayn Rand would call this movement: “A collectivist campaign of moral cannibalism — the sacrifice of the productive to the unproductive.”