>Like a lot of conservatives, you mistake individual economic greed for quality of life.
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>And like a lot of liberals, you want to punish success. I believe that people have a right to enjoy what they have worked so hard to achieve.

Being part of the society at large and the more able paying a higher portion of the bill are not new concepts, nor are they punishment.

I sense in you the same thing I do in Jake -- that you look at everything in economic terms. When that's the case I'm sure it's easy to disregard other things and look at society in a Darwinian way. I don't remember exactly how Jake put it yesterday but he basically said for the system to be strong, the weak have to be allowed to fail. That's it, they fall by the wayside, end of story. Well, I don't agree.