Chris,
I find this a very congenial response:
On 12/11/2012 1:04 PM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance
to the mind's freedom?
No doubt, but I found poverty and concerns about how to provide for my
family to have been a much greater distraction.
perhaps we shouldn't argue politics and tax policy here?
Such topics are important, not because we can solve or settle anything
here (or elsewhere, for that matter) but rather because Joe, for
instance, considers ones views on such matters to be indications of a
person's spiritual 'state' ... I do too, but from a very different
perspective.
reasonable people do disagree about these issues.
Indeed.
Personally I am grateful to have been born into a society that
It is only natural that you approve of a society that fills your
rice-bowl; when/if you experience that social order 'sharing' what YOU
have earned through doing something other people valued enough to PAY
you for, then you may attain a different perspective. All the talk of
'sharing' obfuscates the fact that SOMEBODY had to give up whatever is
given by society (and don't forget the waste that manifests itself as
such 'side-effects' as wars and millions of people in jail) and the very
people (such as Jon Corzine) who ought to have to give up ill-gotten
wealth are the last to suffer such extractions. The great bulk of
government is paid for by ordinary workers through hidden taxes such as
inflation, fuel and sales taxes, and all that sort of thing.
RAF
