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In reply to the discussion: "You're goddamn right we want to take from the rich ..." [View all]Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Throughout history, there have been more such things than I can count. There *isn't*, though, a single one on the scale I think the poster is implying.
The majority - the overwhelming majority - of rich people got rich legally and legitimately, without law-breaking or forgery, not through theft, lies or scams.
Making the - insane and evil - case that the rich should be taxed to punish them for being bad seriously undercuts the - sensible and ethical - case for taxing the rich more on utilitarian grounds.
Most left-wingers get that. Most right-wingers think that most left-wingers don't get that, and politics means that they can be guaranteed publicity from right-wing sources. We should be working to distance ourselves from this kind of quote thinking unquote, not promoting it.