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Old 08-19-2009, 02:30 PM   #49 (permalink)
Brutha
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Based on my own experience growing up poor, I respectfully disagree.
You still happen to live.
Additionally that might be part of your American system that unfair that poor people have to pay to much taxes. The solution is to move that tax burden to richer people.
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But where do you draw the line? How do you decide how much is too much?
In theory through utilitarianism in practice through democracy and the rule of law.
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If I have a right to take your money in order to by myself food, who decides how much of your money I can take?
Individuals don't have the right to make such decision but it's needs liberal democratic institutions to make those decisions.
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