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edwardk@aimnet.aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) wrote:

>LQuest (liberty@airmail.net) wrote:
>: edwardk@aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) wrote:
>: >Well, I am not sure, Travis.  If the Russian came, Bill Gates would lose 
>: >2 billion dollars of income a year, and I some what less (about 2 billion
>: >dollars less).  So, don't you think he should pay more since he has a 
>: >larger stake in this Russian thing?

>: Listen up folks -- this is Marxism talking here!  Sorry Edward. Travis' idea
>: may be a little naive but the essence of his proposal is just.  We must pay
>: for what we get -- not what we have already earned!!!  In the scenario you
>: attempted, the effort to protect Bill Gates would concurrently protect Travis
>: -- same service, same price.  By your logic  Bill Gates should pay more for
>: food than Travis -- simply because he had the audacity to innovate more
>: effectively than Travis.  And that sir is Socialism in its most vile form:
>: "..from each according to ability; to each according to need..." and other
>: such Marxist tripe.

>Don't be silly.  It's capitalism at it's best.  It's charging what the market
>will bear.  Ask Bill Gates how much he will pay to protect his 2 billion
>dollars a year appreciation in his MazelTov stock, and ask me how much
>I will pay to protect my meagre income.  If you don't even understand this
>principle, you won't understand why windows 95, which requires way more than 4
>times the resources needed to write AfterDark screen savers, is 89.95 a copy, 
>while AfterDark screen savers are 29.95 a copy.

>Don't yell marxism or socialism, you don't understand them, much less
>capitalism.

A Marxist influenced tax system is primarily characterized by:

1. No one can earn or own anything of significant value without having to
"register" it in some form with the drooling bureaucrats who did nothing to
earn it.

2. The more wealth one creates the more s/he is punished via a "progressive"
tax collection scheme.

I assert sir that I may know at at least as much about the various "isms" as
you and certainly more than the typical college graduate our "school" turn out
today.  for the last 35 years, I've been out here in the real world creating
wealth (and watching the looters steal it as fast as I create it). The history
of the human struggle for economic liberty has been an avid interest for me
most of my life. 

I have to wonder -- given your apparent ideology, have YOU ever had to sign
the FRONT of someone else's paycheck?