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When the rich run out of $$$ who feeds the poor? The larger piece of pie that goes to the government makes for smaller slices for everyone else, especially the poor.
The wealthy in this country are largely responsible for securing your and most of the world's liberty and defending it for most all of the rest.
When our free government takes on the objective which you want: the achievement of financial equality for all, rather than equality under and before the law, the government then poses a threat to LIBERTY.
You take your citizenship for granted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... the wealthy are indispensible, and we can't do without them.
Except most of the world doesn't let them get away with the shit we do, and they get along just fine.
The Plutocratic Mantra- ignore the rest of the world. Please don't notice that single payer works better than private insurance.
Sorry, man, when I was in the service, the only "rich" person I saw was the idiot nephew of a prominant family who joined the army, and they had to make him an officer. The men laughed when he waddled out in front of formations.
"ignore the rest of the world" is THE UNION MANTRA.
You want workers here to make 65K a year for a job that the world economy can do for half that.