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1. they'll never agree, but we need to make the rich harder work for the money.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 09:47 PM
Jan 2015

rich people shouldn't think of handing money to poor people as a moral failing or anything of the sort.

they should see it as a challenge, how do i get all that money the government is giving the poor into my pockets? yes, that's right, by providing goods and services that they need! isn't that what they always boast that they're so good at?

the whole point of a functioning economy is to get goods and services into the hands of the people who need them. taking excess income from the rich and handing it to the poor gets them to do exactly that.

not to worry, even taxing the rich at something like 80% would still leave them rich. moreover, it would deliver to them millions of customers with cash to spend.

call it the trickle-up theory if you like.

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