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I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Thomas Sowell
Money, Greed, Want
"Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Thomas Sowell
Greed, Use, Want

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