>>Everything good and beneficial and virtuous can easily be paid for if only those billionaires and corporation would just pay their fair share, right?<<

Within reason, yes. - 1pg

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Hard to argue with that since there is no universally accepted definition of what "within reason" means.

I will put it this way, I think there are 100 different well-intentioned ideas to spend every available dollar no matter how much is extracted from tax payers. Saying "NO" is simply not in the vocabulary of politicians craving re-election.

The problem with confiscating wealth to pay for these very necessary programs is that once you confiscate the wealth, it is not available in future years to continue those programs. New wealth must be targeted to keep those programs going as well as fund all the new spending ideas that arise. Like Margaret Thatcher wisely said, "eventually you run out of other peoples money".

So you can believe that near infinite funding is available if you want, and I will humbly disagree.

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