Re: Wealth Redistribution -- What, if any, is the justification for it?
Reply #153 –
Kind of selfish touch there I am afraid. That word on helping the needy whether they need it or not is stretching things. Of recent years the trends has been for the gap to get wider and a couple of decades ago the times you would multiply the average wage to that of a top executive has been vastly widened. However not in favour of those less well off. That cannot be anything more than a reality of practical fact. In your country the top pays less a percentage in tax and in mine the top earners pay 25% of taxes and I think that is right. To simply say with ease somehow by a wave of a wand the rich could hep out the poor is pushing your luck. Throw in 40 million poor and increasing loss of homes and you have an increasing social problem.
If society as a whole is simply going to be a case of "pity you are poor" and hope a few rich people might throw in something into the pot is very flawed. In my mind it is not a very constructive idea of society at all.