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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	It's a fact
	Date:	9/26/2008 10:10:39 AM

Class envy as practiced by liberal Democrats is the concept that it is always acceptable to stick it to the wealthy, usually in terms of higher taxation, because they have "won life's lottery" and the rest of you poor saps would be rich too if it weren't for those despicable rich folks unfairly keeping you down. That the wealthy don't really deserve their wealth but obtained it at the expense of the common man and it is government's job to right this alleged wrong.

In practice it is the idea that one of government's jobs is to level the playing field by taking from the "rich" (at the point of a gun) and giving that money to the less fortunate. It is practiced by liberal Democrats with the theory that if we can just get more than 50% of Americans reliant on the government for all or a portion of their well being (income, health care, education, housing ,etc.) then it will ensure their remaining in power in perpetuity.

As Bastiat ingenuously pointed out, "Government is that fiction by which everyone lives at the expense of everyone else".