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Old 02-17-2026 | 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Rama
" I have never understood why it is "Greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take someone else's money."

Written by Thomas Sowell who was born into poverty and orphaned as a young child raised by an aunt in Harlem.
I don’t believe that it’s greed to keep what you have earned. However, our society (maybe not everyone) has decided that a social safety net is a moral imperative. Much like how roads are an economic imperative. The government that we have voted for has decided that the moral imperative will be funded by a tax on wages. Each of us gets to vote for or against that every two years.