Originally Posted By: goharley
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Owning a business and property is a privilege, not a right. One of the many wonderful things about American freedom is the inalienable right not to own either one, thus saving us from the incessant sniveling and whining of the cost of ownership.


That's funny. White slave owners in the 18th and early 19th centuries had the exact same sentiments about business and property ownership. thumbs

Your comment is really quite telling. You feel it's your right to not own property or a business (which it is) and I assume you own neither. On the other hand you feel you have the right to demand payment from those owners in order to pay for those social programs you so desire. You want the money and the programs, you just don't want to pay for any of it yourself.

In my book taking the property of another using the threat of violence leveraged by the power of gov't is not called social programs, social democracy, redistribution,

...............................................it's called theft.
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