[Old-old-Ivy]

But, then you go off the rails of reality, and pretend that it's the rich that are being penalized.

Really, how do you arrive at the notion that the people in the nicest houses, with the nicest things are the people who are being punished, and the people living at the edge of poverty are the people being favored? Because they are, by infringing upon their rights to keep their property.

You see, everybody has a right to keep their property, because the 5th Amendment says that people shall be safe and secure from unreasonable search and seizure.

And to take stuff away from people just because they have more stuff is very unreasonable indeed.

Now, they should pay their taxes just like everybody else, and they should have the same voting strength just like everybody else, and money should not have an undue influence in politics that it does have today, which is one of the shortsightedness our Founding fathers had.

But to take things away from people out of envy and jealousy is just wrong, and shows that people don't understand that America was founded in order to get away from that mindset, and that they too have the same opportunities to make in America as everybody else does.

And the thing is this: if the government or the people have the power to take away anything they want, they can do the exact same thing to you.

And why anyone would want to live in a society where there is no protection against that kind of thing is beyond me.

Human rights are for everyone, and you just can't pick and choose which group gets them. Selecting which group gets them and which group does not is not really human rights, it's special privileges and double standards.