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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Omega: what I meant is that although the government requires a certain amount of money to continue functioning and perform the duties assigned to it, (what is Caesar's), it does not need to use money to attempt grand-scale social engineering (what is mine, yours, and everybody else's) in order to create a false economic parity. We hate the rich, but they pay 90% of the taxes already. Say I suddenly had an income of a billion dollars. Even under the most lenient possible circumstances, I'd have to give away some 1/3 to the Feds. And have no control over it. Now, sure, that would leave me with 600 million dollars, more than I could ever possibly hope to waste unless I tried REALLY hard... but that other 400 million dollars? It's gone. I can't use it to build a new set of factories, promote state-of-the-art R&D, expand my business, build gigantic models of starships to decorate my mansion, or anything. Therefore, many people who MIGHT have been gainfully employed by my excesses will not be. Now, I could trust that the government will do something worthwhile with my taxed money, such as build and launch a Europa Ocean probe, or finish the WWII Memorial ahead of schedule... but... honestly, do YOU trust them that much? The guys who bombed other countries as a diversion during the Impeachment hearings? So. (BTW, if I ever DO become disgustingly wealthy, I WILL be spending large amounts of money to have starship models custom-built for me... something amateur modelers might want to keep in mind, just in case) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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