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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    States compete to attract desirable (rich, productive, taxpaying, job-providing, law-abiding) residents, and to repel undesirable (poor, unproductive, tax-consuming, lawbreaking) residents. For example, not having a personal income tax is an excellent way to attract wealthy people to a state...
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    Property owners generally are not allowed to subdivide their property and sell off the parts separately. I can look for a home to buy in my neighborhood. and find on the market many properties...P1, P2, P3, etc. But if I can't afford to buy any of them, the owner of P1 can't divide his...
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    state and local governments will then ramp up their class warfare, because they will have greater incentives to dump their poor on other state and local governments, by encouraging them to vote with their feet. Thus a race to the bottom will ensue.
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    Sure...generally there are minimum size requirements for real estate transfers, and home purchase is therefore not scalable. You can buy or sell a typical 1/4 acre property and house, but generally a 1/10 acre property would be unbuildable or unsaleable. This has the effect of preventing many...
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    That argument has prevailed across most of this country for most of the past 90 years. It's called zoning.
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    Why shouldn't a local property owner be free to sell me a minimal property I can afford to buy?
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    Liberalism Versus Blacks

    The labor market has become more competitive, teens generally don't have the skills and experience to compete successfully in an increasingly competitive job market. Middle-aged adults weren't competing for minimum wage jobs in substantial numbers 30 years ago.
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    Liberalism Versus Blacks

    The adult is usually going to perform better on the job than the teenager, because he's doing it for a living - not just for video game money - he has more relevant job experience than the teen, and he's simply 'hungrier' than the teen. That's why 48 percent of all minimum wage jobs today are...
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    Liberalism Versus Blacks

    The 16-year-old won't be hungry and homeless if he doesn't get a job, the 40-year-old adult will, and therefore the adult needs that minimum wage job more than the teen does.
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    Liberalism Versus Blacks

    Look at your local zoning code, it's probably written in a way designed to hurt people below the prevailing economic level of the community. Conservatives are just as classist here as liberals, and communities with (upper) middle class pretensions tend to be the worst.
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    Liberalism Versus Blacks

    I think it's fundamentally classism, plus liberals tend to conflate blacks with classes beneath themselves.
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    Tax cuts which are not fully across the board can, indeed, alter the distribution of the tax burden. After the Bus Tax Cuts - wrongly derided by liberals as tax cuts for the rich - the rich paid an even greater share of the federal income tax burden. That's because new and expanded tax credits...
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    What makes you think he votes for big spenders?
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    On what basis do you say he can? Adults who earn minimum wage generally have no retirement nest egg and no health insurance. If they can't afford those, what makes you think they can afford higher taxes?
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    What is your opinion on Redistribution of Wealth?

    A childless adult earning minimum wage at a full time job pays over $500 a year in federal income tax, plus over $1000 in payroll taxes, and can't afford to buy a house in most metro areas. On what basis do you say he can afford to pay a higher percentage in income tax?
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