[Sherman Logan]

There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy.

If one really wanted to decrease inequality in this country, it would make more sense to tax accumulated wealth heavily rather than income. Some significant proportion of the wealthy did nothing productive to generate their wealth and do not themselves have a moral right to it.

[Hardastarboard]

Some significant proportion of the wealthy did nothing productive to generate their wealth and do not themselves have a moral right to it.

The Kennedy family being one of the highest profile examples of that phenomenon. Nearly every one of them has used that wealth to help destroy the country.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy.

If one really wanted to decrease inequality in this country, it would make more sense to tax accumulated wealth heavily rather than income. Some significant proportion of the wealthy did nothing productive to generate their wealth and do not themselves have a moral right to it.

You didn't do anything for any of the things your parents gave you. Are you ungrateful enough to say that you are not going to try to pass along as much, and if possible more, to your own children? And if you do decide to use your money to make your children's lives financially easier, do they not have a right to the enjoyment of what you decided to do with your money?

The crucial difference between conservatives and leftists is that conservatives conserve memory, and leftists claim the right to "start the world over again." Well, there are people who actually do start the world over again every day - they are called "Alzheimer's Disease Patients." They wake up every morning not knowing where they are or who they are meeting. And having only a vague memory of the fact that they have saved money in the past.

I have seen it - and I say, I'll take memory over that, any day of the week. Socialists want to obliterate the credit (ie, money and ownership of things) which the productive have earned. Because the ownership of money/things is just recognition of the accomplishments (even if it's only digging a ditch) which the socialist politician or propagandist (read, journalist) has not done.

[FreedomPoster]

>>If one really wanted to decrease inequality in this country, it would make more sense to tax accumulated wealth heavily rather than income. Some significant proportion of the wealthy did nothing productive to generate their wealth and do not themselves have a moral right to it.

They have every moral right to it, and your class warfare rhetoric here is straight from the Left’s playbook. It is the government (i.e. YOU) that lacks the moral right to take it from those who have earned it, and their heirs.

Profligate heirs will burn through an inheritance fast enough. This redistributes the wealth more than fast enough. I’d much rather we support bar tenders, resorts, high end car dealers, and such, than more gov’t functionaries.