Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Society is a common decency but it's a decency that ends where some have to pay unreasonably much to uphold it. The money will just go somewhere else if you ask too much of it. And asking too much of the rich is unreasonable, just because they have much more doesn't mean they should pay much more for the same thing.
Quote Originally Posted by Thomas Paine
"Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.
Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."
-Agrarian Justice Part Three
Yes, I got this from reddit r/politics today. But it's a relevant quote.