Numerous polls and studies and research and you know the deal, have come out over the past fifteen years, telling us “college students” oppose free speech. Many still do, and often believe violence is a suitable means for silencing opposing political speech. It’s not very American of them. The founding fathers would likely have them tarred and feathered, so as to allow such a poisonous vein of thought to perpetuate.
Burn down Harvard, the world would, if they could see it today, along with a few other colleges, not all of them with ivy on the walls. And it might not be the wrong decision if you had their understanding of the conflict between liberty and tyranny. Most of what universities have crapped out in recent decades has no clue what empowering the government to take away rights really means. That may be why, well, this.
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and StoppingSocialism.com finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters ages 18 to 39 would support a law that imposes a maximum annual income cap for individuals. Seventeen percent (17%) would set the maximum at $100 million a year and 15% think the annual limit should be $10 million. Twelve percent (12%) favor capping the maximum income at $1 million a year, but eight percent (8%) say it should be $500,000, four percent (4%) say $200,000 and another four percent (4%) want to limit annual income to $100,000. Just 27% outright reject the idea of a maximum income cap, and 14% are not sure.
That’s alarming. They must think wealth comes from the Government when the government can’t even begin to function if someone else doesn’t create it first and allow it to be funded. The government not only has zero value, but it is also a net drain on wealth creation. It is an operating expense, a line item on the mutual/civil society spreadsheet. We agree to roads, some police, fire, a few laws to outline the collective moral consciousness, and a hellish, bottomless money pit doing business as public education.
We didn’t agree to that last thing (but that’s what we got becaue government), so I’d like to see a poll on whether you’d pay 23K a year to a private school you had to send your kid to that could only teach a third of the students it “graduated” how to read at the college level or do math without the calculator app on their mobile phones.
It almost sort of explains why 59% of Americans under forty don’t seem to know how the free market works or what its effect is on everything else. All jobs, investments, and innovation are the result of people with money risking it to advance their own net worth. Sure, you’ve got a few people who don’t have fuck off money dipping a toe, but just one example.
The Feds have been funneling money to private industry for seventy years to support the space program, and the world’s richest man made it cheaper, more efficient, less bulky, and more affordable in under a decade with his own money on his own terms. All future advances in outer space will happen thanks to Elon Musk and, in some smaller measure, Jeff Bezos, or those who emulate their risk-taking and innovation on the matter.
This is true for everything: your phone, tablet, laptop, transportation, air travel, AI, phone apps —everything. The moment the government gets involved, things take longer, cost more, and will likely work less efficiently or effectively.
A cap on wealth is a ceiling on innovation and (literally) the freedom to identify and solve problems without State permission.
If you capped wealth at 1 million, or, how about 100 million, we’d be relying on the government, which would have to rob you and me to engage in systemic failure. Though more likely, it would choose winners and create oligarchs who got wealthy at your expense (perhaps more than allowed by the wealth ceiling), who would likely not accomplish anything beyond funding the politicians that keep them rich.
There is clearly a huge disconnect between reality and how the polling sample thinks things happen in the real world.
The cure is to send them to a Marxist second or third world nation, without any help from the regime, for propaganda purposes, and tell them to try to thrive. If they managed to not get incacerated or killed it would be a miracle.
