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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5823110" data-attributes="member: 24302">But they don't just take a little from the pile as needed.  They put their money to work.  That's investment that results in jobs.  I'd like to have the ease of living life without financial worries.  We all would.  But trying to take as much as possible from those with wealth to make things more fair won't make my life any better.  And is likely to hinder it.  Mario Cuomo pointed out that in New York they kept ratcheting up taxes on the rich.  Now so many of the wealthy have left New York that it's hurting their tax base.  Their state budget is more than twice what Florida's is yet Florida is where many of these wealthy New Yorkers are moving to.</blockquote>