| Hey, I have some charities I like and donate to, if I become a leading politician should I be able to force you to donate to them as well? no. Should a majority be able to force minorities to donate to charities against their will? No.
More over, such a tax is more likely to keep people in poverty in the first place. Say a state has to have 40% of it's population in poverty to be eligible to get aid, why would they let it get to 39% and lose funding? So it would encourage states to be dependant.
It's like the fair trade organisation. It only buys from family farms who work through co-ops. If one of those farms wants to be succesful and expand it's business, fair trade will no longer buy from you so your business is slashed. This encourages the farmers to remain small, needy and dependant.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |