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Thursday, September 17. 2015

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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.


Thomas Sowell (h/t Ace)

Posted by The News Junkie in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 13:15 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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There are only two kinds of money in the world: your money and my money.

Your money is of no great account, and can be appropriated for any last whim that comes to mind, however frivolous.

My money is sacrosanct, and only I should get to decide on how it is to be disposed of.
#1 JJM on 2015-09-17 13:31 (Reply)
are you stating that no tax is legitimate? that would be an impossible position to honestly defend.
#1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-17 14:49 (Reply)
"are you stating that no tax is legitimate?"

Not at all!

I'm just saying it's OK to tax your money but don't touch mine!

(And with that, I've turned my GLIB button to OFF.)
#1.1.1 JJM on 2015-09-17 17:01 (Reply)
Why is a CEO who is paid tens of millions of dollars due to his Golden Parachute after running a company that employed hundreds or thousands vilified but the guy who wins that or more in a lottery is beatified?
#2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2015-09-17 13:43 (Reply)
The lottery winner is beatified only in the moment he receives his winnings. Ten minutes later, if he refuses to donate it to his relatives, neighbors, and the Democratic party, he's as vilified as the executive.

I think the trick is: if you're poor, anything you do is either excused or lauded or both. Riot, murder, steal, whatever--the root cause is poverty, it's not your fault. If you're rich, anything you do is tainted. The corporate executive is rich all along, so of course he's evil. The lottery winner starts off poor, and his virtue survives for a few minutes after he gets his check. Then he becomes another rich jerk who won't give us his stuff.
#2.1 Texan99 on 2015-09-17 14:04 (Reply)
To a collectivist everything belongs to the government and your after tax wages are an allowance from a benevolent society. After all "you didn't build that business". They give the productive workers a little extra to keep their noses to the grindstone, not because the fruits of your labor belong to you.
#3 BastropJim on 2015-09-17 14:02 (Reply)
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned

Sigh, sorry I'm afraid that it's another session of 'Rat-Cage-Face' for you. I really thought that you would have learned better by now.
#4 John the River (Link) on 2015-09-17 15:55 (Reply)

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