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	Name:	MrHodja -
	Subject:	Newspaper Reporter, Views on Capitalism
	Date:	12/21/2010 8:11:33 AM

What most don't understand is that the US is not a true democracy, but a republic ruled by law. The citizens elect representatives and those representatives enact laws. Citizens don't impose their will on others directly.

So in a way we are democratic in that the citizens decide who will represent them - but the idea that citizens could directly enact a 100% estate tax won't fly.

All one has to do is travel and visit a few foreign countries to realize that even the lower economic strata in the US is quite well off compared to others. I wish that a requirement for full time citizenship would be to spend at least a year living in some foreign country. It would make our populace much wiser and open their eyes to what we really have.

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