Re: wealth and property rights

> Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it
> very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates
> to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have
> it

I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both
are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist. 

However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are
responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience.  

For example, I could make a strong case that you really have some
clever "capitalists" who have learned how to express their
"capitalism" quite effectively across the space of all people in a
"country".

8-)
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Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org 
Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet

         It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.

Dave Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it
>> very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates
>> to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have
>> it
> 
> I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both
> are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist.
> 
> However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are
> responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience.

  Well labels--'socialist', 'communist', etc. can be quite misleading'
as they mean many different things to different people but they do
push emotional hot buttons.

  I don't understand the 'exhorbitant taxes' thing--in the US our
taxes are absurdly low compared with most of western Europe and
our social services a disgrace.  I don't know what it's like in
the UK but compared with the rest of Western Europe our tax rate
is a joke designed for the upper classes.

				Steve