[mod.politics] Power and wealth

kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/06/86)

    From: <ucsbcsl!uncle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>

    about 1/2 of 1 percent of the US population posesses
    about 1/3 of the total assests of the US

 References please?  I am sure this is completely false.

    Severing critical context from the public discourse
    is a Hauptmethedologie and a Hauptziel of reaganism

  Could we have an english translation please?

    ASSERTION: TOO MUCH POWER IN THE HANDS OF TOO FEW IS BAD.

  Agreed.

    ASSERTION: MONEY ISSSSSS POWER, JUST AS MUCH SO AS THE POLITICAL
                    POWER OF ANY KOMISSAR.

  False.
  Government power is the power to coerce others.  This includes the
power to rob, to imprison, to torture, and to kill.
  Money is the power to freely trade with others.  This includes the
power to trade money or other wealth with anyone who would rather have
the money or other wealth offered than what he is willing to offer in
trade for it.  It also includes the power to refuse to make such a
trade.  Nothing more.
  There is no obviously no comparison between these two kinds of
power.

    TAX "Reform"???? "Flat Tax" = trojan horse II.

  I would rather see a flat tax than the present byzantine system, but
what I really want is a voluntary tax.

    FREEDOM AND JUSTICE do not require or depend upon reaganism,
    they are ANTIPODAL to reaganism.

  Reagan is not the issue.  He is just one man.  Government in all its
forms is the issue.
                                                              ...Keith

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