Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Fairness and wealth

Bernie Sanders says that three people own as much as the bottom half of all Americans. He says this to point out the unfairness. Let us rectify that immediately by forcing these three, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos to sell their stock and distribute the proceed to those in the bottom half. This means to divide their $300 billion by 150 million and each person gets $2,000. This would certainly spread the wealth around but would Bernie be happy with that? Most politicians who want higher taxes assume the money would come to the government and then the government would decide who gets what. It is not just redistribution of wealth but redistribution of power and control. This money is then used to garner votes which leads to more money which leads to more votes all the while under the umbrella of fairness.

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