{"id":42242,"date":"2012-03-22T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42242"},"modified":"2012-03-22T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:26:33","slug":"does-inequality-undermine-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42242","title":{"rendered":"Does Inequality Undermine Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times writes<\/a>: “The United States does less than other rich countries to transfer income from the affluent to the less fortunate.”<\/p>\n

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “In the left-wing mind, if you are more affluent, it’s because you are more fortunate.”<\/p>\n

“What if it had said we don’t believe in transferring money from the affluent to the less hard-working? There’s a relationship between affluence and hard work. The people who earn more work more. They watch less TV. They play fewer games.”<\/p>\n

“I’d like to ask those who earn $50,000 a year — did you walk around thinking you were unfortunate? If you were on the left, yes. On the right, no.”<\/p>\n

“This is why the left believes in taking money away from some people and giving it to others to have a more egalitarian society — because it is just a matter of fortune.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve never looked at the very wealthy as more fortunate than me.”<\/p>\n

“Derek Jeter has more money than I but why does that make him more fortunate?”<\/p>\n

“Through age 40, I made about $65,000 a year. I had a salary of $35,000 a year and I supplemented it with lectures.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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