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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Laura Creighton on wealth distribution
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 00:06:53 EST
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Funny, I don't see *that* problem in Friedman's argument. To say that
``I want the poor better off'' and to say ``I find poverty distressing''
amounts to the same thing for me. The hole that you find in my
argument only exists if you think that ``wealth redistribution''
is the sort of thing that one can compell one's neighbours to do
if one is in the majority. I have no qualms about prohibiting my
neighbours from assaulting myself or each other, but I have yet
to see an argument that holds water as to why ``a right to impose
the beliefs of the majority on wealth redistribution'' should rank
up there with ``a right to life'' and ``a right to liberty''. . .
unless one hol;ds that the wealth that needs redistributing was
acquired illegally (ie through offenses agaisnt such rights) 
which does not seem to be what is asserted about taxation.
[Not to say that some on this net have not asserted exactly this --
I just do not think that this is what is being used as a rationale
for taxation in either of our countries.]

Laura Creighton
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