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leatherhat said:
Mr Khan said:

People deserve a certain modicum of dignity (or the lower rungs on Marslow's Hierarchy of Needs): namely health, food, and shelter. It behooves the whole of society also if those who are unable to participate in society are made able to participate (and also fulfills another Need), and these Needs are superior to the "right of a man to the sweat of his own brow."

Those who are able to give should give, those who are in need should receive.

Now the how of all this is, of course, the tricky part, but there is little doubt that this course of action is *right,* save by those who hold unfeasibly extreme views of property rights.


How, specifically, do you intend to get him to pay this money- regardless of tax rate. Pretend I'm him, convince me to stay in France. 

I wouldn't. He's free to go, after having oh, say, 50% of his net worth seized by the State.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.