Re: wealth and property rights

[Stephen Boursy <boursy@earthlink.net>]

Dave Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it
>> very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates
>> to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have
>> it
> 
> I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both
> are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist.
> 
> However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are
> responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience.

  Well labels--'socialist', 'communist', etc. can be quite misleading'
as they mean many different things to different people but they do
push emotional hot buttons.

  I don't understand the 'exhorbitant taxes' thing--in the US our
taxes are absurdly low compared with most of western Europe and
our social services a disgrace.  I don't know what it's like in
the UK but compared with the rest of Western Europe our tax rate
is a joke designed for the upper classes.

				Steve