[quote=deadzone]I’m tired of all the right wing rhetoric about “risk taking” and how taxes are unfair because people should be rewarded for “Taking risks”. All this talk about risk taking sounds a lot to me like gambling. Is gambling something we should encourage? And as with any form of gambling, there are winners and losers. What do the right-wing no-tax people suppose should happen to the losers? Is all the money they made “risk taking” so sacred that some of it can’t be taxed in part to help provide a social safety net for those less fortunate? And one more thing the right-wingers don’t comprehend, being more fortunate doesn’t necessarily mean you worked any harder.[/quote]
Good post, deadzone. “Risk-taking” does not equate to “productivity” or any other beneficial thing.
As a matter of fact, some of us would say that all of this “risk-taking” is what caused our current financial problems.
