Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by aljungberg on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:30AM (#13995121)

That's just another way of saying people shouldn't be allowed to give their shares freely. You give your shares to Wilt, the government gives them back to you (assuming the government has no overhead).

So the original argument stands: forced wealth redistribution is incompatible with free will and liberty. The word "force" itself means the removal of freedom.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by memmcgee on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:43PM (#13996916)

The government doesn't give you back everything you gave to WC and it doesn't necessarily give it back to you.

You van spend your money however you want. Taxes simply mean that everyone benefits from spending, not just WC.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by aljungberg on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:38PM (#14008551)

Right but in this particular thought scenario it doesn't matter what the government does with the shares. It is still the case that the government constrained your liberty regarding your shares. You wanted Wilt to have them, Wilt didn't get them.

I'm not making a moral statement here. I'm not saying whether it's good or bad for the government to do this. I'm just making an observation that, logically, the parent didn't provide a "solution" to the grandparent's thought experiment.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by metaphorm on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:48AM (#13995814)

you're coming dangerously close to the precipice of far-right libertarian "all taxes are tyranny" ideology here.

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