Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you go to India or China, you will find a culture which does not > believe in the protection of individual rights and/or property rights. > I have been to these places and I know about China. I spent a semester in college learning Chinese history, anthropology, literature and so on. They do not protect individual rights as much as we would like, but there is some protection. It is much better than it was under Mao. They protect property rights 100%, as long as you are wealthy. If you poor they often take away your land to build another empty shopping mall. > You are making an erroneous assumption that taxes and regulations > prevent these kinds of problems. > Taxes would ameliorate conditions if people paid taxes. Everyone who earns more than $50,000 or so pays a bribe instead. That's how it was a few years ago. Only the poor pay taxes. These countries lack of the rule of law. - Jed
