Re:Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?
by conanbatt on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:21AM
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I would answer to 1.:
It is a very different society, one where the top 90% give to the bottom 10%, to one where the middle 80% take from the top 10%, eat most and give scraps to the bottom 10%. A society that cares for the weak does not need to fund it with taxes, it can subsist on charity. You will see that in practice, always a middle class person takes the money first before it goes to the person that needs it.
Can we use this entitlement argument elsewhere? Would that be fair?
So, how would you feel if I restated this as:
>I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic benefits, if they don't contribute to the pool of economic benefits
Two issues I take with this:
1. Those incapable of contributing, such as the psychologically or physically unwell, must I guess just die
2. I could restate this further as "Returns from entitlement should correlate linearly with input to entitlement," that is, the more taxes in real dollars you pay, the more benefits you should get from the system, which I think is awful for many reasons.