Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities?

[The Magistrate]

33. The Text For The Sermon, Ma'am, Is This....

"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid."

If you key the matter to effort, it is obvious the greatest amount of effort is expended by people doing the first sort of work, and yet they receive the smallest portion of what value their effort creates. Qualities of personality, such as 'initiative' or 'drive' have no relation whatever to the concept of of work and earning; they are contingent traits, and to exercise them in degree to which one is given them is not effort or work, but simply expression of the personality one is blessed or cursed with. One might as well claim the perquisites of noble birth were 'earned' through 'work', which was an error no old noble of the sword would ever have lapsed into; he would have simply said he was better than the rest, and so deserved more than they. I am not adverse to return on investment, but the question of how that capital came to be available for investment must remain open. Nor am I adverse to invention bringing reward to the inventor, or reward for any other creation considered by others to be valuable enough to warrant purchase.

I note you do not really answer the question do you consider taxation theft?

You are free not to do so, of course, but after a while, not doing so will suggest there is some reason for the avoidance.

What do you consider a 'fair and reasonable tax code'?

What do you consider is the way tax revenue is intended to be used?