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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Punishing the rich, while it may make us po' folks feel good, is a bad precedent...For if The Rich lose incentive to re-invest their Ill-Gotten gains in more stores or hiring more people to oppress, the the jig's about up..Too bad the Obamessiah who Art in Washington is too stupid or too full of hate & contempt to grasp this, something about every 1st year Econ major knows...
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Got to agree with one part - the "Ill-gotten gains" bit. After two decades or more of observing business I reached a simple conclusion. Businesses and those running them are only as honest as they are forced to be. The derivatives scandal was the shining example, once the risk seems nil greed runs rampant.
I would suggest that most rich people either inherited it or stole it.