by pukeko
Individuals against the Borg.
May 1, 2009 in evidence by pukeko
Interesting day. Found this via No Minister. My comment is that it is moral to reward individuals who risk: it is immoral to steal. The most moral tax is atithe (which goes to the poor) or a head tax (interestingly, the Torah has a head tax to start the covenant, but tithes to keep welfare going.)
It wrong to subsume one’s God-given moral thoughts and freedom to a collective. It is moral to oppose the Borg.
Advocates of free enterprise must learn from the growing grass-roots protests, and make the moral case for freedom and entrepreneurship. They have to declare that it is a moral issue to confiscate more income from the minority simply because the government can. It’s also a moral issue to lower the rewards for entrepreneurial success, and to spend what we don’t have without regard for our children’s future.
Enterprise defenders also have to define “fairness” as protecting merit and freedom. This is more intuitively appealing to Americans than anything involving forced redistribution. Take public attitudes toward the estate tax, which only a few (who leave estates in the millions of dollars) will ever pay, but which two-thirds of Americans believe is “not fair at all,” according to a 2009 Harris poll. Millions of ordinary citizens believe it is unfair for the government to be predatory — even if the prey are wealthy.