Reply To: Atlas Shrugged and the Torah

4. Do you really not see a difference between me voting to build roads with all of our money, and me voting to take your money and give it to me?

5&6. I don’t want to argue facts. I am asking about a situation where the majority votes to take money from the rich. To disallow the response you made, I will stipulate that the majority will also pay a lesser amoun. So here is the example:

100 people. Govt needs 100 for general upkeep, and is contemplating social welfare programs which will cost 25000. 75 vote that each person should pay 1 dollar for the general upkeep, and that the richest 25 should pay 1000 each for social welfare progams (which will be food stamps, health care, etc, for themselves). Do you find anything immoral about that?

7. What is the distinction between assets and income? It is mine. I built stuff, sold it, and made money. Or I grew wheat and ate it. How is it not stealing for you to take it from me for yourself? According to you, it is not stealing the year that I made the money, but if you took it the next year it would already be assets and would be stealing. That makes no sense.