Redistribution and the Lesson the Left Refuses to Learn

Human beings that excel beyond their peers in labor and industry should reap the rewards for their exceptional efforts and talents.
That’s as simple as it gets, and not coincidentally, it’s built into our nation’s foundation.  The ability to reap those ample rewards for effort and talent is the very essence of liberty.  Quoting Thomas Jefferson:

To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association – “the guarantee to every one of a free exercise to his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.”

That is liberty, the idea set firmly in place long ago.  It is this idea and the incentive therein which drives success and greatness.

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