If it's greedy for me to want to keep what I earn, isn't it greedier for others to want to take it?

Answer 1

I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don't force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man's right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment. Yet you have allowed your world to be run by means of force, by men who claim that fear and joy are equal incentives, but that fear and force are more practical.

I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine
-John Galt

Answer 2

I think it depends on how much you make. If you are 65 year old CEO that make 200 mil a year when you are sitting on 600mil in the bank and you think that poverty in the richest country in the world is OK. Then yes you have psychopathic greed. You have to ask yourself how much is enough.
If I was the king I would have a flat tax that was progressive that started at 50k and capped at 10mil. If you are earning over 10mil a year i think that excess should be disturbed. With the wealth of this country we could have universal health care, free college, the best public schools decent working wage for everyone.
I guess that makes me a socialist. 4% controlling 50% of the wealth is not OK.
Capitalism worked great when the country had vast area and resources and mostly were immigrants with nothing it was a level playing field but now its a pyramid. more like a tack. It can't work forever.
If you are middle class you(we) are a buffer by design between the wealthy and the poor. The middle class turns against the poor(welfare) imposed by the wealthy. The middle class runs on the dangling carrot of the American dream to be wealthy and the satisfaction of not being poor. This prevents revolution between the poor and the wealthy. Mexico is boarding on revolution but the elite are heading it of with immigration into the united states, further compromising America's problems.
The point is the deciders don't care about you, and you , will never be one of them. And you are much closer to the bottom then the top.

Answer 3

i dont believe its greedy for you to want to keep what you earn but if thats the case, it is extremely greedier for other to want it, not only greedier but it is wrong...I can relate to this situation because my house recently burned down and my mother wants to keep a majority of the insurance money i get from my belongings for her own. Where as i have no place to stay, no vehicle etc. On the other hand she is engaged, has a home, and plenty of wealth...it is even greedier for her fiance to want to keep my earnings for his own as well as decide what i get to spend my earnings on and make decisions for me...its very frustrating.

Answer 4

by skill of definition that's greedier to think of you're entitled to take what somebody else earned than that's to think of you're entitled to maintain what you earn. it is likewise a fact that permitting human beings to maintain, spend and make investments what they earn, greater wealth is created. there is, consistently has been and consistently would be, a tradeoff between redistribution to realize greater equivalent shares of the pie and the entire quantity of pie. it extremely is going to consistently be the case that for ninety 9% human beings, whether we finally end up with a smaller share of the unfastened industry pie than we'd with a collectivist pie, we nonetheless get greater pie, because of the fact the unfastened industry pie is lots larger than the collectivist pie. i desire to be greater powerful off than i'm on the instant and that i do no longer care if which skill some prosperous guy will become even richer - if I grow to be worse off it won't console me to appreciate that some prosperous guy lost money.

Answer 5

If your talking about the people doing nothing to contribute, just standing around with their hands out waiting for their "entitlements", yep!!! GREED!!! If your referring to taxes? Sweetie, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!! Where are the entitlements suppose to come from?!!! Seriously, Taxes are what keeps us from becoming a third world country. The problem is, how are they spent and when is enough, enough!

Answer 6

Since you already pay for corporate welfare, government infrastructure that enables you to make that money, and social programs with your taxes, aren't you barking up the wrong tree?

Answer 7

So quit using the roads, and trade directly with internationals for your goods. and barter directly with your consumers without US currency because
NO - You do not have to live in a developed country and pay taxes.
Go find and island and KEEP IT ALLLLLLLLL.

Hopefully, it will be a very decrepit island nation with abysmal slums and epidemics - because you have to put those people who want handouts somewhere, you know.

Answer 8

You're right. I think the American people give quite enough already except for very poor children or elderly people.

Answer 9

I agree with you. I get up five days a week and go to work, I pay my taxes and dang it, I want to keep what is left over, I dont want someone who chooses not to work to be able to benefit from my paycheck.

Answer 10

So, you don't want any taxation, is that what you're saying? Your question doesn't make any sense, like most other conservative statements.