You are not entitled to other people’s social security money
It should read: a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping support tens of millions of freeloading Americans that don’t work as hard as you but think that they have a right to your money.
That means that the top 49%+ are handing their hard work to others. There is no possible way that anyone can claim that those 50%+ are incapable of working and making a living. The percentage of people that are completely incapable of making a living is less than 1%. The rest are freeloaders looting your hard earned wealth.
And to be pragmatic (it doesn’t really matter, but it makes the point as to why any other way is immoral from a non-philosophical point of view) you are wealthy because you know what to do with the resources you have. Be it money, time, effort etc. You know better than others that are not wealthy. Thus the wealth you create will be cared for better because it’s yours and you’ll be careful and you’ll use it the way you know how. The moment that some disinterested party takes that wealth from you by the point of a gun and gives it to someone else, they are throwing away potential new wealth creation.
This is both immoral and ultimately the cause of the collapse of American civilization. You have the right to that which you produce. NOTHING ELSE. Continue reading