Comments on: On Income Differences http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html/comment-page-1#comment-188599 Anonymous Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:07:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6787#comment-188599 In what little I can bring to the discussion, I have been debating (closer to fighting I suppose) with a friend over this exact point. The essential point is simply that when we talk about income distribution versus redistribution, we are talking about very different things, despite the fact that the words sound similar. It may not be particularly helpful to further the discussion, but it certainly seems true enough. In what little I can bring to the discussion, I have been debating (closer to fighting I suppose) with a friend over this exact point. The essential point is simply that when we talk about income distribution versus redistribution, we are talking about very different things, despite the fact that the words sound similar.

It may not be particularly helpful to further the discussion, but it certainly seems true enough.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html/comment-page-1#comment-185458 Anonymous Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:44:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6787#comment-185458 "Your morality, and Boudreaux', and Thatcher's, doesn't just miss the point, but plays into the enemy's hands."Please explain... “Your morality, and Boudreaux’, and Thatcher’s, doesn’t just miss the point, but plays into the enemy’s hands.”Please explain…

]]> By: DG Lesvic http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html/comment-page-1#comment-185422 DG Lesvic Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:18:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6787#comment-185422 Bab, Your morality, and Boudreaux', and Thatcher's, doesn't just miss the point, but plays into the enemy's hands. For, if the policy doesn't work, the morality of it isn't an issue. So, by making an issue of it, you imply that it does work, that plunder pays, and freedom doesn't. And, with friends like that.... Bab,

Your morality, and Boudreaux’, and Thatcher’s, doesn’t just miss the point, but plays into the enemy’s hands.

For, if the policy doesn’t work, the morality of it isn’t an issue. So, by making an issue of it, you imply that it does work, that plunder pays, and freedom doesn’t.

And, with friends like that….

]]> By: DG Lesvic http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html/comment-page-1#comment-185411 DG Lesvic Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:16:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6787#comment-185411 babinich, Your morality still misses the point. Taking from the rich to give to the poor doesn't reduce but increases inequality, and is immoral from the redistributionist's own standard. babinich,

Your morality still misses the point.

Taking from the rich to give to the poor doesn’t reduce but increases inequality, and is immoral from the redistributionist’s own standard.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/on-income-differences.html/comment-page-1#comment-185403 Anonymous Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:31:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6787#comment-185403 "To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy." Paging PM Thatcher... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw&feature=player_embedded# “To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.”

Paging PM Thatcher…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw&feature=player_embedded#

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