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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:46 -0400, Eisboch wrote:



Fair taxes on that earned or created wealth is fine. But a
redistribution of wealth by government edict is not. To do so is
socialism or communism, plain and simple.

Eisboch


LOL, that would depend on which way the wealth is being redistributed,
wouldn't it?

http://www.sustainablemiddleclass.co...efficient.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient



That's bogus.

For one thing, a "perfect score" of 1 means that a single person .....
actually a group ..... has all the wealth, stated in terms of income.
A score of 0 means everybody is equally wealthy .... income wise.

Yet, as the score goes up over the years, the "middle class" is
disappearing. Where did they go?

Well, some slipped into poverty obviously and those need to be helped. But
the others didn't drop off the planet.
They moved upward.

Eisboch