Re: wealth and property rights
Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have it
I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist. However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience. For example, I could make a strong case that you really have some clever "capitalists" who have learned how to express their "capitalism" quite effectively across the space of all people in a "country". 8-) ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.
Dave Hayes wrote:
Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have it
I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist.
However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience.
Well labels--'socialist', 'communist', etc. can be quite misleading' as they mean many different things to different people but they do push emotional hot buttons. I don't understand the 'exhorbitant taxes' thing--in the US our taxes are absurdly low compared with most of western Europe and our social services a disgrace. I don't know what it's like in the UK but compared with the rest of Western Europe our tax rate is a joke designed for the upper classes. Steve
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