CDR: Re: Nader

[Tim May]

At 9:30 AM -0800 11/2/00, Greg Broiles wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 08:51:03AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
>>  Nader is getting a late start in the enthusiasm stakes, but it could
>>  be that he'll really surge. A lot of folks are mired deeply in what
>>  Nietzsche called "resentiment." They just don't like it when other
>>  people have done well by investing instead of by drinking beer for
>>  the past 20 years, and they want the successful people taken down a
>>  notch or two.
>
>Ironically, Nader himself is a millionaire, apparently as a result
>of the investments he's made over the past 20-30 years and his
>spendthrift lifestyle. Good for him - but it makes me wonder where
>he'd draw the line between "wealth that's deserved" and "wealth that's
>not deserved."

Yep, I heard that he has a multimilllionaire position just in Cisco 
alone. As you said, good for him. (Frankly, anyone who was in the 
working force in the late 50s, early 60s, as Nader was, and who lived 
parsimoniously in a rooming house for all those years had BETTER be a 
multimillionaire!)

As for how he'll draw the line, I'm sure he'll do as other liberals 
do: support confiscatory income taxes. As the Kennedy clan does.

(Of course, the Kennedy clan was careful to have most of its 
bootlegging money from Old Joe placed in trusts and suchlike.)

Many extremely wealthy liberals are all too willing to support wealth 
confiscation. "I'm willing to have half of my $300 million taken for 
a good cause, so let's get going and build a communitarian fair 
society!"

--Tim May
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