If I was a lefty politician and really wanted to help the poor you know what I would tell my megadonors?
Forget redistribution. You are the experts – start another business. I will get government out of your way. If you are successful we will not tax away your gains if you use them to start even more businesses. A roaring economy will do more for the poor than any government program I could ever devise.
Because what do the poor want? Not just money, but also the opportunity to make a contribution. To be proud of themselves.
It is why I have devoted the last year and a half to Bussard Fusion Technology despite my retired status. I want to continue to contribute. I want to maintain my self respect.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
Helping The Poor
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I wish Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence had listed “individual human creativity” as one of mankinds three basic God-given human rights, or at least “creative pursuit of happiness.”
I believe it is in fact a great injustice – a great injustice – for any government to suppress individual human creativity through social engineering, i.e.: Socialism.
Someone in addition to myself, needs to yell this from some rooftop: “Individual Human Creativity is a God-Given Human Right – Along With Life and Liberty!”
“I want to maintain my self respect.”
There is no other path to self-esteem.