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Sure sounds like a liberal: all we middle-class people want is for other people to feed OUR children, too, and pay for OUR kids' college education, too.

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Conservatives kind of take property rights for granted and believe, without evidence, that money acquired is the same as money earned. So, instead of viewing vast wealth as a problem -- evidence of an imbalance in the system; they don't view taxes on vast wealth to fund things that are beneficial to the society as a whole as an equitable adjustment to the system. They view it as taking from somebody who has rightfully earned the money in order to give it to someone who does not deserve the money. (If they deserved it, they'd have it. Poverty is evidence that you are undeserving. Wealth is evidence that you've earned what you have.)
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That's quite a leap from what I basically said: that it's greedy and unrealistic to expect other taxpayers to feed and pay the college tuition of middle-class children.

And yes, some wealth distribution is beneficial to society as a whole, and that's why we educate children through high school. That's also why we fund Medicaid. And food stamps. We can tweak these programs, but not to the extent that middle-income people take OPM for their kids' lunches. If you're middle income, you feed your own kids.

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