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Donald Ian Rankin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-10 10:49 AM
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29. A foolish and harmful right-wing caricature of left-wing economics.
"Tax the rich, feed the poor until there are no poor any more" is a perfectly good slogan.

The OP, however, gives a great deal of credence to the right-wing meme that progressives are motivated by the desire to harm the rich, not just the desire to help the poor.

The rich getting even richer is a *good* thing; it's just not as important as the poor getting richer. Making the rich less rich is a price worth paying, not a good in its own right. Anyone who doesn't agree with this should not be let near economics, and anyone who doesn't make it clear should not be let near political campaigning.
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