<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">In light of that fact, the answer to question: </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">Do we take their money? I would suggest, eh… no. Definitely, no, unless every member of that “we” is ready to do life in the big house.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">spike</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">Oh we do take their money - progressive taxes. As for Dan's 'solution', stop having politicians that are bought, I beg answers to how to accomplish that. It seems that a bit of larceny is built into humans. Will robots running AI be as corruptible? (what use does a robot have for money? I can think of many things and probably Spike a lot more!)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">bill w</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:55 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">>…How much is too much? One can simply give it away if one feels one has too much, but this too much is mostly a subjective judgment, no? Sure, some people wallow in consumption, but, again, how much is too much? How is that decided? What's the standard here? What happens if someone exceeds it? Do we take their money? Dan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hi Dan, for those who live outside the USA, I perhaps should remind them of how of how our legal system works in the USA. If a group of people participate in a felony as a group, then any person in that group is slain in the commission of that felony, (including perishing by gunshot wound fired by the victim) then every member of that group is charged and most likely convicted of murder 1.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">In light of that fact, the answer to question: </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Do we take their money? I would suggest, eh… no. Definitely, no, unless every member of that “we” is ready to do life in the big house.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">spike</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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