Local asshat: "Robin Hood Syndrome" is bad for gov't and bad for business.

TheMightyFavog

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Tue Mar-03-09 06:36 PM
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Local asshat: "Robin Hood Syndrome" is bad for gov't and bad for business.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090303/GPG0703/903030584/1247/GPG03

There's a misguided belief that it is the government's job to take wealth from those who have it and give to those who don't (taking their cut first, of course). This Robin Hood Syndrome has been a headline grabber for the last several weeks and if all goes as some politicians plan, it will continue well into the future.

So what does the Robin Hood Syndrome have to do with business? Everything! In the 1960s, it was the war on poverty. Now, it's the war on prosperity. The very people who have given the United States the highest standard of living in the world are being attacked as if it's wrong to create wealth and prosperity. Since when has working hard and prospering become a sin?

Some quickly point out that the wealth that's been created has been "on the backs of the working man." Of course, it has � and it's in his wallet, too! A rising tide raises all ships and when business prospers everyone prospers�the working man, the government, our society. Why is such a simple concept so hard to understand?

The entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness to take risk has been the bedrock of this country's incredible success in the world. Look to the decline of socialist Europe to see what happens when that spirit is destroyed.

Would Mr. Hager like some Wisconsin Cheese with his whine? Suck it up and pay your fair share, moran!

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Dollface

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Tue Mar-03-09 06:42 PM
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1. Why is such a simple concept so hard to understand? Because it only works when the working man has

enough power to counter the power and abuse potential of the employer. With the destruction of the Unions over the last 30 years the rising tide is only lifting those who can afford a boat. THe rest of us are drowning.

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Berry Cool

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Tue Mar-03-09 07:47 PM
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2. Yep. And he seems to forget that the prosperous American man is not a self-made man.

Every prosperous person in America got that way with help from the government. Is asking them to pay some of their wealth and prosperity back to their country a sin?

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Generic Other

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Tue Mar-03-09 09:41 PM
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3. The rising tide the angry workers, the ship of rich fools the titanic

Reverse robin hood syndrome is what I see.

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Bill McBlueState

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Tue Mar-03-09 10:18 PM
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4. yeah, because we've never had a progressive income tax before

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applegrove

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Tue Mar-03-09 10:24 PM
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5. The rich just want to be richer. They want to live in a country like Mexico or venezuela

where the rich are so rich and the result is that the poor are so poor and there is not much in the way of a middle class. So people who are poor get desperate (they can't work their way up to wealth because it is a club) and start kidnapping.

That is the type of country Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative noise machine want the USA to be. The USA is already close to that with the distribution of wealth somewhere around that of Russia (a capitalist society for 20 years) and Mexico (where one third are rich, two thirds of the country are poor). How's it going? Those are hellish places to live is how it is going.

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Canuckistanian

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Tue Mar-03-09 10:32 PM
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6. Since when has Robin Hood become a villain?

The fable of Robin Hood has always been a working-class hero story AND at the same time a warning to those who abuse power.

The notion of a dashing figure who takes from those who have too much and gives to those who have too little is the classic story of societal egalitarianism and economic justice.

I've always been fascinated at these RWers who try to make a villain out of a perennial hero who only sought to end tyranny.

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