Some key reports today on architecture billings, existing home sales, and new residential construction provide additional evidence that a U.S. The interests of politicians who want to exercise power, and to get the votes That would better serve the interests of the poor, but it would not serve
The few things that can be distributed to people without reducing the amount heldīy others. Is the ability to fish, or to be productive in other ways. If the redistributionists were serious, what they would want to distribute Give him a fish and leave him dependent on the government for more fish in the We have all heard the old saying that giving a man a fish feeds him only forĪ day, while teaching him to fish feeds him for a lifetime. They slaughtered andĪte young farm animals that they would normally keep tending and feeding while Government was going to take a big part of the harvest. Farmers in the Soviet Union cut back on how much time andĮffort they invested in growing their crops, when they realized that the You cannot confiscate future wealth - and thatįuture wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going toīe confiscated. People died of starvation under Stalin in the 1930s as died in Hitler's But when the Soviet UnionĬonfiscated the wealth of successful farmers, food became scarce. Make the rest of the society more prosperous. In theory, confiscating the wealth of the more successful people ought to Nations were a classic example, but by no means the only example. Out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.
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