To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
A. George W. Bush
B. Newt Gingrich
C. Rush Limbaugh
D. Thomas Jefferson
2007-10-03 14:10:58 · 8 answers · asked by madd texan 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
cantcu:
So you think I've misquoted Jefferson. Look it up for yourself:
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml
Did I even mention "income redistribution"? Why all the venom?
The left wingers go nuts when we show that Jefferson wasn't as left leaning as you say he is.
If you'll check out that website, you'll find that the economy has always strengthened after tax cuts.
2007-10-03 14:35:27 · update #1
Stern makes his money the same way everyone else does, he gets paid for a service he provides. People PAY to listen to Stern. They PAY to use a service he provides.
BTW, your quotes of Jefferson only say the same thing as mine.
Does anyone force you to give your money to a business? The only thing we are forced to give money to is the government.
Another thing, I would be willing to bet that YOU make more money than I do, so according to your statements you are making your money off of my back.
2007-10-03 14:56:49 · update #2
D. Thomas Jefferson
Written in a letter to Joseph Milligan
2007-10-03 14:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by Jennie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you are getting at, but the rich have been stealing for years from the poor! That's how they got their money, off of the backs of others.
And it wasn't "his" own industry, it was everyone elses!
Why is it you right wingers allways pull this when some you have stolen from the poor goes back to them? Your favorite term is "redistribution of Wealth"!!! Why don't you call it that when you are stealing from the poor?? You act like you made everything all by yourselves!
You misquote Jefferson!
He also said ""A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490
"[We in America entertain] a due sense of our equal right to... the acquisitions of our own industry." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:320"
What do you think "Our own industry" means? That only the KINGS can have it?
That is why 90% of the country is owned by 623,000 people out of 300 million!
Howard Stern makes his own money, usually not off the backs of others! Stern makes $1,000 every 24 seconds!
2007-10-03 14:19:39 · answer #2 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well its definetly not choice A-bush, it is too complex for him
C- Fanatic and an Idiot
My guess would be D. Jefferson
2007-10-03 14:40:42 · answer #3 · answered by BrushPicks 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmmmmm......the first three together dont have enough inteligence to put together a sentence....i'm guessing Jefferson
2007-10-03 14:16:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's very well put, so that eliminates the first 3...
2007-10-03 14:15:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a
2007-10-03 14:15:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mike E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I weep for our nation based on the responses here....
2015-12-17 09:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by Faith H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D
2007-10-03 16:54:51 · answer #8 · answered by jerry z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋