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This is _precisely_ equal to saying 'Every person in this country has a right to all the labor & resources of everybody else, to be expropriated through the coercive power of the state, & redistributed as the state sees fit'. But I guess Bernie's version sounds better.https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1168592173589094404 …
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Here's a reading list for how.https://www.adamsmith.org/ten-books-every-libertarian-should-read …
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As is saying the roads should be properly maintained.
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I've never claimed anyone has a _right_ to roads. We can agree to fund roads through taxes. That's fine. But once you claim a _right_ to roads, you don't understand what a political right it.
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Precisely equal? Underscore-precisely-underscore-equal to taking ALL the labor AND resources of everyone "else"?? It's more like taking maybe 30% of combined output and redistributing it equally to all, including those paying the taxes.
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Where does the constitution give the government the power to redistribute wealth just because some folks think that would be nice? If you want to pass a constitutional amendment doing that, give it a go.
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The US can decide it wants to be a fundamentally different kind of economy, but when you have serious candidates talking about functionally trapping wealthy people here under a 40% exit tax — terms to which they never agreed when they grew their wealth here — I have a big problem
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Right now the US shoulders a great burden in e.g. medical discovery for the rest of the world in exchange for a massive influx of global talent. I can understand why many people think this is a raw deal, but I don't think they understand the implications of rapidly opting out
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