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The underlying assumption of the above headline is that the same amount of goods will be produced, even if you take the rich'es revenues away from them. Well, false. Without proper incentives innovation will decline, and the average purchase power will decrease.

Marxism has been tried and failed.

Perhaps the rich should be taxed differently, but the simplistic assertion (ending poverty four times over) is obviously false.



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