Re: Wal-Mart and Wages?

From: Usenet is a Social Disease (whocares_at_nothingness.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:52:38 GMT

Socialism is a Mental Disease <root@localhost.> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:59:56 -0700, The Trucker <mikcob@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>We get the dough to finance SS benefits from income tax on
>>higher incomes
>>

> Why should the richer be forced to support the poor?

One argument is that decreasing wealth disparity tends to discourage
activities by the lower economic classes that threaten social stability
and hence, increase the effective protection of the wealth of the upper
economic classes.

Do you like the French revolution?

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