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Diamond69 said:
Once upon a time there was this big beautiful tree. A colony of ants called it home. That colony eventually grew to billions in numbers on this big beautiful tree, unknowingly weakening it's strength. One day, the tree snapped and fell into the raging river it grew alongside.

Well, the ants knew there was a thousand foot waterfall down river that would certainly kill them all. They didn't know what to do! Well, a small segment of the ants, maybe around 500 in all got together and figured out how to save the tree and all the ants! The solution was clear! Raise the taxes on a couple hundred million of the ants.

Ending A: The taxes worked and the tree, while damaged, floated safely to the bank of the river and remained their for eternity.

Ending B: The inevitable happened and the tree eventually went over the falls, killing them all. But at least several billion of the ants never worried themselves about it as they knew they had no control over the outcome anyway.

The end.
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I see two flaws with your example:
1. In an unrestricted, free market system, the 500 'wise ants' certainly would have accumulated enough wealth through application of their superior knowledge in order to fund the solution amongst themselves without the need to 'tax' another 'couple hundred million'; and
2. On what equitable basis would the '500' decision makers decide which 'couple hundred million' to tax? Would the '500' be taxed as well?
 
NevadaP said:
I see two flaws with your example:
1. In an unrestricted, free market system, the 500 'wise ants' certainly would have accumulated enough wealth through application of their superior knowledge in order to fund the solution amongst themselves without the need to 'tax' another 'couple hundred million'; and
2. On what equitable basis would the '500' decision makers decide which 'couple hundred million' to tax? Would the '500' be taxed as well?
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Stop sounding reasonable!!:LOL:
 
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