Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Taxation is theft? Message-ID: <1370@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 19:07:03 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1370 Posted: Fri Feb 8 19:07:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 01:06:04 EST References: <326@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 20 Summary: In article laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes: >These arguments are not the ones that are usually used to justify most >of the ``taking from ``the rich'' to give to ``the poor''''. The argument that >is used is that ``the poor'', by being so badly off, *deserve* more and that >the force of this deserving is sufficient to take things away from ``the >rich''. A lot of people profess to believe this. I don't know how many people profess to believe it, but it is surely a classic "straw man". The reason for redistribution is that it makes *everybody* better off, including those from whom wealth was *apparently* taken. This is the main argument, for example, in the Brandt report, and I think you will find it an argument more people "profess to believe" than the one you quote. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt