From Thomas Sowell (born 1930), American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1995):
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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How Americans have decided this mind set is better than being EXCEPTIONAL is beyond my thinking —
From Thomas Sowell (born 1930), American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1995):
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.