I know many successful people who have busted their butt to get what they have. They worked 15-20 hours a day for years on end and it paid off for many of them when their business finally took off. As such, they were able to hire more people and their businesses continued to grow. Instead of being a burden on society, they worked hard and became a benefit to society by taking care of themselves and offering employment to others. Plus, if you count the company vehicles, maintenance, cleaning crews, gas, medical benefits, building rents, advertising, etc, etc, etc, they did more to aid society as a whole. Not only did they create jobs in their company, they created jobs in several other markets as well.

Personally, I don't think we should be penalizing them for being successful and creating jobs and lives for countless others - it doesn't pass the common sense test. I think they should be taxed at a reasonable rate. I believe they should be allowed to use whatever deductions available. If we tax them too much, they will lose the desire to produce and will either sell or close the company down. We wouldn't have tax problems if the government lived within its means and didn't continue to grow.

chiefburg wrote:

College Republicans ask college Democrats with high GPAs to sign a petition to redistribute some of their GPA points to the disadvantaged students and these libs don't like the idea. Just a good illustration of why taking from those who earn and handing it to those who don't is immoral.

robertknyc wrote:

There is also no student with a GPA above 4.0.

tweoijfoi wrote:

This is a poor corrollary to how economics works. There is not a set amount of GPA points that the teacher has to distribute. A teacher could give every student an A, or every student an F (in theory). There is also no student with a GPA above 4.0. There is no student who has a 5,000 GPA and works to keep everyone else at a 2.5 GPA.

tweoijfoi wrote:

This is a poor corrollary to how economics works. There is not a set amount of GPA points that the teacher has to distribute. A teacher could give every student an A, or every student an F (in theory). There is also no student with a GPA above 4.0. There is no student who has a 5,000 GPA and works to keep everyone else at a 2.5 GPA.

tweoijfoi wrote:

:-s

DrMaddVibe wrote:

And here it comes, the left's justification for theft. Since income is unlimited, confiscating income to hand to the lazy is okay. Since GPAs are limited to 4.0 if course it would be wrong to redistribue that, and the liberal students who are against the idea are in no way hypocritical.

robertknyc wrote:

I'm not justifying anything. I merely said that this example of why income redistribution is wrong is extremely flawed.

tweoijfoi wrote:

i heard a great joke last year. it went something like this...

a college professor said he never failed a student but once failed an entire class. the class argued with him about income redistribution/socialism/etc. He said, OK, would you all like to conduct a live redistribution/socialism experiment with this class? He explained that he would simply average the grades for the tests together. THey all promptly agreed.

first round of tests there were 5-As 7-Bs, 11Cs, 5Ds and 2 Fs, the class averaged a B. Sure enough, there was dissention among the ranks. the A students were pissed, the B students happy and the C,D and F students elated!

next round, the A students didnt study as hard, neither did the B students or anyone else for that matter. Class average = C.

Final test, class average F. Entire class failed.

It just doesnt work. you have to reward hard workers, not discourage them.

Papachristou wrote:

I'm not justifying anything. I merely said that this example of why income redistribution is wrong is extremely flawed.

tweoijfoi wrote:

What this video shows in unambiguous terms is that the people who are the achievers do not want to have their earnings confiscated, and therefore when it is done for the express purpose of giving to underachievers it is theft.

robertknyc wrote:

I don't want my tax dollars going to the Iraq war. Therefore my money is being stolen from me in order to fund a war I do not support.

tweoijfoi wrote:

I don't want my tax dollars going to the Iraq war. Therefore my money is being stolen from me in order to fund a war I do not support.

tweoijfoi wrote: