Comment 27059

By Zombie Adam Smith (anonymous) | Posted October 28, 2008 at 12:09:49

A Smith (clearly an Imposter of the Vilest Order) wrote, "there is a difference between helping someone and making someone dependent on handouts."

As I wrote in my Modest work An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations, "The *necessaries* of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The *luxuries and vanities* of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax ... therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

Perhaps the Imposter A Smith ought to reacquaint himself with the principles and tenets with which he submits pretence to hold himself fast; and in so doing to recognize that the burdens and viccissitudes of life fall unevenly upon the public and must be redressed through the judicial redistribution of a small proportion of the total wealth of the nation through the means of a progressive tax upon that wealth, and particularly upon the luxuries of the very wealthy.

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