Law in Contemporary Society

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InequalityJustice 6 - 04 Feb 2010 - Main.EbenMoglen
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 Is inequality inherently unjust? If so, what can be done to reconcile justice with a world defined by scarcity of resources and the continual creation of unequal relationships? This twiki entry has the goal of providing various perspectives on the question of inequality and its link to justice.

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 I think this would be a terrible idea. Forget the fact that it deincentivizes anyone to make more than 2 million dollars a year (of course, if we fix inflation then perhaps this seems more reasonable, however, I'd contend that there are people who create value in excess of 2 million dollars). But now, you'll have high earners moving to other countries and finding more ways to skirt the tax code. Instead of getting whatever tax revenue we were going to get in the first place, now we get bupkis.

Of course, this happens right now so maybe it isn't such a bad idea...

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This conversation is not addressing the issue, any more than a discussion about why it is or is not important to achieve justice in individual cases if injustice as a whole can never be eliminated. Both are as silly as a discussion about the ethics of tax policy that takes up no question more difficult than whether confiscatory taxation is a good idea. You can't demonstrate commitment to having a discussion by trivializing it.

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