re: #163 LudwigVanQuixote

If it was gained through the exploitation of an unfair system that can only be bought into, how is it really theirs?

Ah, so life isn’t fair, and the government should have some role in producing a “fair” outcome. And your suggestion that someones legally acquired money isn’t really theirs because you don’t approve of “the system” that enabled them to earn it is a bit Stalinist, doncha think ?

The unions built the middle class of America…

It’s not as if they’re now primarily concerned with stopping child labour in coal mines is it ? Public employees should accept a trade-off between pay and job security, not expect to be paid more than private sector workers who have less secure jobs. Unions in the end are just protection rackets - “nice little corporation you got here…. wouldn’t want anything to happen to it would we….”.