I am just sickened by the attitude in this thread.

[DonCoquixote]

78. If a guy is rich

He can afford to do RESEARCH on his highly expensive, very rare bottles of wine. Instead of spending 25 million to pursue people after the fact, he could have spent a few million on Private investigators before hand. In buisness, you are expected to check before you leap, but as he has inhertied wealth, he has never learned to do that, and he can at least hire people to do that for him.

But let's adress this whole "theft is theft" idea...how, pray tell, did this person get so rich? Part of it is his spending millions to buy politicans and media time, to outright LIE, and kepp his taxes low. Those taxes are what he owes us for making a society that can buy all those Dixie Cups he sells. His trucks roll on roads we paid for, his banks are stablizied by our FDIC, and yet, he has been trying to make sure he, and other people like him, pay less and less taxes. Even as our deficit runs higher, even as we fight wars to ensure HIS supply of oil, he steals millions from us! The problem is that we do not see the theft from millions of us as a crime, only we are supposed to weep because of what happened to one person that, in the end, will not have to worry about medical care, food, rent, cancer from pollution, mounting debt, or anything else we do because of HIS willingness to STEAL OUR GOVERNMENT FROM US!

Let's be honest, if he agreed to the CLINTON tax rate, which was far from the Eisnehower one, the Cliton taz rate, would he still be able to collect enough vintages that he could turn his wine cellar into a museum? Yes. But he will not even settle for that, no, this is a persopn that wants to get rid of Social Security, the one little bit of money that has not been stolen from us. The point is, stealing is wrong, but I know who the real deadly thieves are.