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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Personally, your experience is obviously pretty fucking limited. I'm more than willing to allow certain minimal safety nets for people.
And by the way, what exactly is wrong with wanting to keep what you have? Do you think we live in a world where the aim is wealth parity? Do you think that's anything but absurd given what we know from thousands of years of exeperience with human nature? From the reality that we live in a Darwinian world?
What I do have I intend to keep, and that's not greedy in the least. It's fucking rational. My first allegiance is to the people closest to me. Do you offer the govt more money than you're taxed every year? Do you eschew aggressive tax strategies that preserve your family' wealth? Of course you don't. You'd be an idiot to do that.
You have a lot of stones to make a comment like that, and what's really amazing is you live in one of the biggest glass houses. If people didn't want to keep their money you'd be sweeping floors.
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I don't think there is anything per se wrong with wanting to keep what you have. My objection is the people who pay $20,000 a year to put a kid in private school, but vote against a $250 increase in their property tax bill to pay for building a public school.
I think that people, especially people who are born white, middle-class, and professionally trained, who speak of Darwin as a social construct are trying to foool themselves, because they certainly aren't fooling anyone with intelligence. I don't pay more to the gov't than my taxes as due, but I also don't favor taxing dividends and capital gains more favorably than the wages of honest labor.
I don't counsel my clients to take overly-aggressive stances regarding taxes. I follow the law, much like I assume you do. And I think you've got a lot of stones to suggest otherwise.
