On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Judah wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Robert wrote: > > like i said, unless we are going communist and nationalizing people's > > wealth, a la Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. > > Which doesn't at all address my point, curiously enough. How does that > have anything to do with comparing tax burden in the US based on > percentage of GDP versus percentage of taxes paid? >
I didn't see any reference to GDP. All I saw was a reference to the wealth "they have", presumably meaning each individual's net worth. My point is that taxing income is one thing, nationalizing someone's wealth is quite another. > The irony with Cuba and Venezuela is that, while almost everyone is > > dirt poor, the jefes are billionaires. > > Right, which is terribly different than the robber barons of the good > old days of American Industrial Capitalism. I get that those levels of > economic inequality are bad and I happen to agree. You seem to be > under the delusion that they are solely a feature of a certain brand > of theoretical economic system. In that, you are poorly mistaken. > Uh, no. As I said, wealth disparity exists everywhere. It always has and always will. The primary feature of our economic system is that anyone, from any background, can become one of the people at the top of the scale. Opportunity is the name of the game. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276105 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
