Spoiled Kids Acting Like 1%’ers

Found this while reading through Say Anything:

Some classics:

  • Hey, dude, that’s not cool!
  • It’s not fun to take people’s candy.
  • This is my candy.  I worked hard for it.
  • He stole my candy already!
  • You can’t split candy ’cause that’s not right.  That’s HIS candy.
  • I’m gonna call the police!

Notice that the kids felt that this was theft.  Taking something from them that they had earned was “not right.”

It’ll be years before these kids learn that when a monkey does it they can call the cops.  But when the government does it, the GOVERNMENT calls the cops.

These kids are learning what legal plunder looks and feels like.

4 responses to “Spoiled Kids Acting Like 1%’ers

  1. If government steals money, it’s corruption. Proper taxation is the lawful collection of money to pay for the collective good, national defense, and the priorities of a democratic polity. Without the state and government, there would be no effective or prosperous economy. That has to be paid for – the fair way is to have legal democratic principles. Plunder happens all over the world where there is no effective state and rule of law.

    • Proper taxation is the lawful collection of money to pay for the collective good, national defense, and the priorities of a democratic polity.

      Most certainly not the collective good. That’s why we have a Constitution. The collective has no claim on my property.

      National defense, yes. There are proper roles of government.

      And absolutely not the priorities of the democratic polity. Again, we are crafted to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Consider 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.

  2. Yet the Constitution allows for policies that promote the general welfare, it allows for taxation, and if something is unconstitutional it gets ruled on by the Supreme Court. How else are we going to figure out the proper limits – it’s not something any one person can dictate?

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