Re: Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rynd

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> if the minority pay a VAST majority of the tax burden in the US, then it is
> very easy for a politician to ignore the minority.  Serve the majority by
> redistributing income of the minority taxpayers who actually pay the taxes.
> Who cares about the minority, they can not elect anyone.

  Carl is correct. Once 51% of the people pay no taxes we are 'toast'.
Those 51% can vote themselves anything they please and the rest of us
can pay up or move out.  Sure sure the (so far still) rich can buy some
politicians for a while and keep the wolves back for some time but
incrementally the 51% become 52% 55% 60% 70% and eventually it's over. 
The bad news of course is that when the rich are no longer rich there
will be NO-ONE paying taxes and the entire system falls flat on it's
a**.

 - Larry
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