🚀 go-pugleaf

Edward N. Kurmudgeon<edwardk@aimnet.aimnet.com> wrote:

>Jim Miller Jr. (jmillerjr@lsfcu.org) wrote:
>
>: Geez, you bigot! This is nothing but rich bashing by a jealous person. The
>: government does not exist to protect property, it exists to protect freedom.
>: While one of the freedoms we enjoy as Americans is to collect and build
>: wealth, it is not primary. Bill Gates would suffer exactly the same loss of
>: freedom as any homeless family were the US Government to fall to an
>: agressive foreign agent.
>
>But not the same loss of property you will agree, won't you?  So, let just
>say we charge the amount that the poorest person in this country can afford
>to protect his freedom, and charge everybody else the same amount to
>protect their freedom, as they would each suffer the same loss.  That's fair,
>won't you say?

Yes, I'll agree that that is completely fair.

>  Ok, incidentally, we also protect everyone's property.
>Shouldn't we charge something for doing that?

The federal government should not. That should be left to the states who
impelement the police departments charged with this job. Anything the
federal gov't does is merely incidental to the job of protecting the freedom
to accumulate further property beyond the self.

>  And, property is accumulated
>over time, so shouldn't we charge some additional amount each year to
>protect the increase in his property that has become an additional burden
>on our defense establishment for protection?  Isn't that fair?  That's
>progressive income tax.

In other words "Rob from the rich and give to the poor." I don't
understand how the US Gov't spends a nickel more defending Donald
Trump's property than it spends defending a cardboard box, my house,
or the local Burger King. Unless some foreign power was specifically
attracted to overthrowing this government for the explicit purpose of
getting their hands on a specific individuals wealth, the fact that said
wealth exists in no way changes the amount of defense needed to
protect that wealth.

It's not fair. Fair is equal treatment, certainly not equal treatment based
on the perceived ability to pay. Maybe we should stop letting people
with money use public defenders too.



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