Those dollars are not yours until after you pay taxes on them.All analogies have their limits. My point stands. The farmer made the food, but it is now yours, The government made the dollars, but they are now yours.
The laws of the United States, the Declaration of Human Rights and the very morality of the fruits of your labors being YOURS, says otherwise.
Wealth is not created in isolation
Irrelevant. I work along side many co-workers. We are in each others company, we work together, we support each other, we help each other on nearly ever task.
And not one of them thinks he or she is entitled to any of my paycheck and I do not think I am entitled to any of theirs.
; it is as much the product of society as it is the individual, since society, acting through the government, provides the enabling conditions for the individual to labor safely.
Society is a collection of individuals who agree to function together as a group in order to accomplish tasks that individuals or smaller groups cannot do, in the expectations that all the individuals will benefit.
The "social contract" of such groups can vary from group to group.
At times in the past, I am sure there were groups where some individuals were so desperate that they were willing to accept a deal where in exchange for safety that they would agree to not having the right to ANY property, or the result of ANY of their labor.
My understanding of history is that most slavery was involuntary, but I am given to understand that there were some exceptions to that.
HOWEVER, our founding "social contract" is have provisions for our citizens to have the Right to Property.
YOUR desire to have first dibs on anything and everything produced is a violation of that contract, or what we conservatives call "Human Rights".
And again, lets keep the context in mind.
We are NOT living in a world of plunging tax rates and tiny tax revenues.
The average FEDERAL tax burden is around 30% and that doesn't cover state, local, sales taxes, not to mention the thousands of little "fees" and "service charges" for paper work, parking tickets, and what have you.
This is not about me being selfish, it is about you being greedy.