Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 25

------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:01:03 -0500 From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again) To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <D67BBCB673F4491BB8DC3A37289BD563 at eMachinePC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response You can say that "Well, we live in a society, and that's just the burden that rich people will have to bear to live in it with us. Fine. The Wall Street Journal has an article yesterday by Art Laffer on what the response of rich people is to that ultimatum. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260067214828295.html They leave. Just as the pilgrims left when Wat set up shop in the forest. So the arrangement is unsustainable (if increased prosperity for all is the goal). J. ------------------------------