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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 999691" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Ronald Reagan, he said as he sipped his Lipton tea. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> And curiously Warren Buffet has structured his wealth so that very little can be touched by the gov't. He's right up there with T.Boone Pickens who was going to build the world's biggest windmill farm(and saying it wasn't about the money) but backed out of that when he didn't get lucrative contracts. The fact is there has alway been class warfare(a lot worse a century ago with the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, etc). There will always be envy but demonizing the rich to justify growing an all powerful centralized gov't isn't sound thinking. I read a lot about life in the third world, and I don't admire people who live ostentatious lives while people suffer. But as a part of the capitalist system that makes it possible for us to live better than those in the third world the rich are essential. If our gov't can devise a system that rewards the rich for taking better care of their employees(tax breaks) I'd be all for it. Until then soaking the rich is just an easy, populist method to pander to the masses who resent not having as much to get their vote. Does not solve our fiscal problems and will make them worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 999691, member: 24302"] Ronald Reagan, he said as he sipped his Lipton tea. :) And curiously Warren Buffet has structured his wealth so that very little can be touched by the gov't. He's right up there with T.Boone Pickens who was going to build the world's biggest windmill farm(and saying it wasn't about the money) but backed out of that when he didn't get lucrative contracts. The fact is there has alway been class warfare(a lot worse a century ago with the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, etc). There will always be envy but demonizing the rich to justify growing an all powerful centralized gov't isn't sound thinking. I read a lot about life in the third world, and I don't admire people who live ostentatious lives while people suffer. But as a part of the capitalist system that makes it possible for us to live better than those in the third world the rich are essential. If our gov't can devise a system that rewards the rich for taking better care of their employees(tax breaks) I'd be all for it. Until then soaking the rich is just an easy, populist method to pander to the masses who resent not having as much to get their vote. Does not solve our fiscal problems and will make them worse. [/QUOTE]
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