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In <3r4du2$9q3@josie.abo.fi> mlindroo@news.abo.fi (Marcus Lindroos INF)
writes: 
>
>Ronald Paul Menich (rmenich@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: 
>: Person A pays $5,000/yr in taxes.  Person B pays $20,000/yr in
taxes.
>: That is, person B has contributed four times as much as person A.
>: Yet, when they go to the polls, person A gets one vote and
>: person B gets one vote.  Despite the fact that person B has 
>: contributed to the government far more than person A, he gets
>: no more say in how that money will be spent.
>: THAT'S NOT FAIR !!
>
>Why should wealth and political power go hand in hand? Maybe Person
>B isn't brighter/more hard-working/more successful/"Better" than 
>Person A ... he merely happens to have a rich dad who can afford to
>send him to the best schools (Yale, Oxbridge or wherever) etc..
> Whereas Person A might
>have been raised in the inner cities, by parents who never could
>afford to send him to college. Thus, Person B gets unfair 
>_inherited_ opportunities Person A never gets...unless you introduce
> scholarships and similar things to help gifted, underprivileged
> people.


Then again, maybe Person B is a self-made millionaire and Person A
is a slouch.  Another possibility is that both Person A and Person B
are just regular people.  Another possibility is that both are
idiots.  The fact that Person B pays four times as much as
Person A in taxes does not mean that Person B is a bad person
and should be further punished!

I think taxation and representation should be proportional.
Such a rule puts a natural check and balance in place on
those who would confiscate the wealth of others.
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Ronald P. Menich
Applied Probabilist
6839 Lockridge Drive
Doraville, GA 30360

These words are my own and do not reflect
those of my employer, Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.