fasttense
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Mon Sep-11-06 09:04 AM
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The overgrown wealth of an individual is dangerous to the State |
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"An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property." - The Sixteenth Article to the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights 1776.
Is too much wealth concentrated in too few hands dangerous to democracy?
By what I have seen in the last 26 years, I believe corporations or individuals who have accumulated excessive amounts of wealth seem to be addicted to it. They come to regard their exaggerated wealth as a justification to control not only their massive wealth but their governments as well.
All things in moderation. Is too much of anything dangerous - even wealth?
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Glorfindel
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Mon Sep-11-06 09:18 AM
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1. Of course it; ESPECIALLY wealth |
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Remember Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against "malefactors of great wealth"? Same situation now. If it keeps getting worse, and I expect that it will, the solution that France discovered in 1789 might just be the next step. :evilgrin:
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