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Yeah, but what paid for that to be built? Taxes collected from individuals who succeeded.


Actually the people who do not succeed (the lower-to-middle classes) pay far more in income taxes than the paltry capital gains taxes of the ultra-successful.


the top 10% pay 70% or so of all income taxes.. the top 20, 90%


Yeah, but the money is taken from the lower class and given to the overclass by the government through property rights and similar laws. Who pays how much for the common good is an uninteresting question, as money is simply resource allocation by the government/the-powers-that-be.




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