62 People Richer than Half of World's Population

You view taxation as theft?

It looks like we're going to build our own Elysium… I mean Halo… to get away from the pleb soon.

'Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?' (Augustine

Strictly boiled down, they could indeed be viewed as such. A state making it criminal to not pay, but forcing citizens to pay 'in return' for services that they may or may not use

But in answer to you more realistically, not so much in RL context (since those who would realistically want to pay no tax to receive no benefit at all is extremely limited;

but there is an argument IMO against going further than necessary), but frivolously increasing tax is not something to be encouraged. Bring yourself up, not others down.

Is justice taken away or increased by our current tax system? Augustine was alive in the 4th and 5th centuries. I don't think this comment was intended for a time with the NHS and state education, where taxpayers money was used for the benefit of the many rather than the few.

Your point here is unclear

I don't think anyone's suggesting we 'frivolously' increase taxes. What is 'necessary' is obviously subjective. It's right that those with the broadest shoulders bear the heaviest burden. This isn't about 'bringing others down', and I have confidence that most higher earners are decent enough not to view it in such a selfish way.

See I don't see that and think 'Awful, how do I take it away from them!'; I think, wow, that's rather incredible, maybe that could be me one day.

Aspiration > Theft

It looks like we're going to build our own Elysium… I mean Halo… to get away from the pleb soon.

Where are the likes of the Rothschilds some people say they have trillions

The figure cited is $1.76tn. According to the hard left front organisation posing as "charity" Oxfam, this is equivalent to the net worth of the world's poorest 3.5 billion people.

Let's divide 1,760,000,000,000 by 3,500,000,000 and see what they are worth individually:

$500. Each.

If we steal all this money from rich Jews like Mark Zuckerberg we can double that! Socialism is truly a marvel.

He is ethnically a Jew. If you don't believe me look at his nose. If I was citing his religion I would call him an atheist.

And youre richer than a lot of people too.

If you take the UK average salary of 25.6K, you are in the top 0.88% of earners in the world.

http://www.globalrichlist.net/

that doesn't make that kind of power distribution right.

and that site is so weird it goes up to £1,719,129,605 of all the random numbers

So when are you going to give up your first world wealth?

Nice little strawman you have there. An argument for multilateral wealth re-ballencing is not an argument for unilateral action.

Nice little strawman you have there. An argument for multilateral wealth re-ballencing is not an argument for unilateral action.

However it does establish the hypocrisy of many wanting equality, it highlights the fact that people do not want those before then to be made equals, that entails personal loss, rather they just want everybody above them to be bright down to make themselves equal, a system whereby there is no personal loss, possibly personal gain, and the loss is fur those the individual is envious of.

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This was the point tbh. Also Aph I like you. I genuinely do. You're a nice enough person..we just disagree sometimes, especially on matters like this!

However it does establish the hypocrisy of many wanting equality, it highlights the fact that people do not want those before then to be made equals, that entails personal loss, rather they just want everybody above them to be bright down to make themselves equal, a system whereby there is no personal loss, possibly personal gain, and the loss is fur those the individual is envious of.