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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
No. Btw I mentioned Jobs out of hand, I'm not particularly fond or not fond of him. Gates too.
And Edison. Rockefeller? Carnegie. Thousands of guys that kept it up past a modest bank account, have done a great deal of good. While some folks have done great things for their love of craft, or science, or humanity, boatloads of stuff came from rich guys 
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I understand that too, but that's for another thread. A lot of those guys got forced into giving money either by social pressure or legislative action. It's not they sat on the Lusitania dreaming about bringing European opera houses to the ghettos.
In any event my hope in this thread was to take the discussion of the progressive income tax beyond the politicians' rhetoric. They will say the purpose is to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Or to pay back for the structure that enabled them to get rich.
Now we know there is more to the story.