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Marcus Lindroos INF (mlindroo@news.abo.fi) wrote:
: Ronald Paul Menich (rmenich@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: : In <D939Gr.8KK@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> ascott@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Alan
: : 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.
: ---
: IMHO, this is why some redistribution of wealth and "one man-one vote" are 
: essential if democracy is to survive. Uncontrolled capitalism leads to
: a divided society where wealth and poverty are inherited, not necessarily
: because "good" people become richer while "bad" people fare less well.
: -- 
: MARCU$

foolish people tend to lose their money no matter how they start off.
wise people can make money no matter how they start off

wisdom can't be taught


I`d wager (wisely i think) that there is some correlation between
smarts and dollars.

I'd rather have government by the able than government by the inept


just some thoughts
vincent pribish
pribish@nd.edu