…they can’t even give their wealth away without outsourcing it to Daddy Warbucks Government? Not exactly my favorite person, “comedian” Bill Maher:
There was a story recently about a Georgia man whose home was in foreclosure, savings running out. So he called 911, and when the responders arrived, he took them hostage. His demands? Getting his electricity turned back on. Now I’m not saying that’s a smart approach, but squeezing people economically so tight that they go all Django unchained, that’s not smart either.
If you’re rich you should be begging the government to redistribute your wealth, because you know what happens in countries where there’s a huge disparity between the rich and the poor? The rich get kidnapped. It happens 72 times a day in Mexico. Getting snatched out of your car is so common in South Africa that they actually make cars that do this.
According to the NewsBusters post, he’s worth $23 million. Let’s do a back of the envelope calculations, shall we? Hey, he doesn’t need more than that, right? After all, President Obama has now twice indicated that once you have made enough money, you don’t need any more. So, let’s just leave Mr. Maher with $5 million – so we have $17 mil to “redistribute”. Let’s say that the average electric bill is $100 / month (round numbers are nice), that would be 170,000 less poor people – at least for a month.
Then what? How to help the next month – after all, now poorer Bill doesn’t have enough to do it all over again, right? If you pay the bills for people one month, shouldn’t they have the expectation that you, the redistributionist, will naturally do it again?
But back to my original point – Does Bill really need Government to do this – can’t he do this himself? Or has he become “too dependent” on Government (like a lot of folks “of means” who want higher taxes imposed upon folks like them, but can’t seem to bring themselves to just “donate” to the Government) to do it by himself.
