05-10-2011, 04:10 PM
Ted King wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
Uh.. I'd be willing to believe that too. Unless you put in a draconian 'money balancing' set of laws and practices that put all the wealth into the hands of 'the state'. Then the current wealthy would simply be replaced by a class of kleptocrats.
And yes.. the rich are different from you and me. They have more money
Ed.. please review the economic history of ANY nation that conducted a campaign of confiscation of wealth. You'll see the same results. And don't get started on the purity of Marxist economic theory. Human nature was not considered in his theories, which resulted in total failure of every single Marxist experiment.
Good thing there's not only a black and white choice of accepting the status quo or going all Marxist up the capitalists butts.
Ted! Pithy and snarky all at once...(and correct, of course)