My favorite leftist is adamant about “make the rich pay their fair share”. He’s a smart guy whose job is detailed analysis of numbers. I’ve been pestering him for years about quantifying “fair”, to no avail. I’ve presented quantitative analysis to him, showing you can’t squeeze any more from them ... but he just clings to the misguided notion of “fair”, offering no more than vapid insults and platitudes, convinced the system isn’t “fair” but unwilling or unable to offer anything more specific.
So it goes with our political opponents. Devoted to the notion of “fair”, they can’t and won’t quantify and articulate what they mean - because the system is already fair, and they just don’t like it.
I would suggest this...if the rich ever wanted to “strike”, it’d be simple. Take thirty percent of their stock investments, and simply sell off a massive amount of regular stock in companies....driving prices downward. Then take the profits and money from the sales, and put it into a non-money making account. Sit on it for weeks and months. A recession develops, which the President really can’t do anything, unless he suddenly ‘wised-up’ over the rich and their investment in America.
How dare you! The system is most certainly NOT fair!! The reason your friend cannot reply is because he knows this, and he knows it is unfair in the direction that HE prefers. The fact that you call the system "already fair" means that he has already won, and he is at least smart enough to know to not say anything to mess that up.
To a liberal, “fair” means assuaging their envy of people more successful than them which can never be satisfied.
That is because it has nothing to do with "fair." The motivation is all about envy, and the Democrats have harnesed the deadly sin of envy to their advantage.
“but he just clings to the misguided notion of “fair”, offering no more than vapid insults and platitudes, convinced the system isn’t “fair” but unwilling or unable to offer anything more specific.”
With the Marxist LIberals, it’s really all about avarice. Most of them are not wealthy and either don’t want to do the work necessary to acquire wealth or are not smart enough to pull it off. So for them it’s “penis envy.” They are upset that someone has made it and they have not, and they therefore have decided that the best way to get it is through “wealth redistribution.” Bottom line, they are lazy!
Not true. They know exactly what they mean by "fair", but they won't say it because of the consequences (just like Candidate BO's disingenuous "above my pay grade" remark).
"Fair", to them, means "from each according to his ability; to each according to his need."
But they won't say that for obvious reasons, just as Candidate BO wouldn't admit that he believes in infanticide, if that's what the Mother wants.