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Showing Original Post only (View all)So really ... what is wrong with redistributing wealth? [View all]
I, for one, don't believe that any one person should be able to tie up all that money in personal accounts. I think that there should be a cap on personal wealth (say $10M ... and I'm being generous) and anything above that the government should be able to take that money off of the person and use it to fund various government programs like rebuilding infrastructure, funding a nationwide healthcare system, education for the underprivledged etc.
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but doesnt that just lower the price of the dollar making it harder to purchace things when we print
awwwsheet
Sep 2012
#21
What about the $2 trillion dollars taken out of circulation by big businesses...
kentuck
Sep 2012
#26
pay a fair tax on money you hold in your posession that you have already paid taxes on?
awwwsheet
Sep 2012
#41
In Arkansas you've got to pay property tax on a car you already own and that is rusting away...
HereSince1628
Sep 2012
#87
Not necessarily. The crash took $2 trillion per year out of circulation in the economy.
CJCRANE
Sep 2012
#30
Funding two wars by borrowing mostly from the Chinese is what got us in this mess
HereSince1628
Sep 2012
#81
This is an ethical question, depends on how you feel about your fellow human beings.
Avalux
Sep 2012
#7
Going by your INITIAL logic the government will NEVER go after the non wealthy...this statement
uponit7771
Sep 2012
#83
right but those people are only taking money from their relative who left it for them.
awwwsheet
Sep 2012
#32
And the people who who have a bunch of it don't want to share it at all. n/t
porphyrian
Sep 2012
#90
Nothing, It's actually very beneficial to the wealthy to redistribute wealth through taxes -
haele
Sep 2012
#40
We redistribute wealth in the extreme, but most of it goes *TO* people like Romney.
Marr
Sep 2012
#57
If there aren't enough jobs to go around, giving people money is a moral imperative!
reformist2
Sep 2012
#60
Most of them are NOT in the 1%, that's how bad the knowledge of income in the US is....
uponit7771
Sep 2012
#84
Nothing, an economy exists to distribute resource. If there is no movement then the economy fails.
TheKentuckian
Sep 2012
#92
Well ideally I'd like to see capitalism itself abolished, but in the short term...
white_wolf
Sep 2012
#93
So the government would confiscate anyones money that has liquid over 1 million ?
former-republican
Sep 2012
#96