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		<title>Wealthy Progressive Hypocrites Say Yes on Initiative 1098</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watch this political ad (below) promoting Washington State&#8217;s Initiative 1098, which seeks to dedicate $2 billion per year to fund education and healthcare for children. It&#8217;s always for the children! It&#8217;s not about soaking the rich! even though this other Yeson1098 video makes a point of demonizing the greedy rich. The slogan is &#8220;the wealthy [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watch this political ad (below) promoting Washington State&#8217;s Initiative 1098, which seeks to dedicate $2 billion per year to fund education and healthcare for children. It&#8217;s always for the children! It&#8217;s not about soaking the rich! even though <a class="vt-p" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VMcRqtdSI">this other Yeson1098 video</a> makes a point of demonizing the greedy rich. The slogan is &#8220;the wealthy pay more, the rest of us pay less.&#8221; Bill Gates, Sr., is presented as a grandfatherly figure sacrificing his comfort for the sake of childrens&#8217; enjoyment while he explains the reasonableness of this new scheme to legally plunder the rich.</p>
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<p>His son could donate $2 billion of his own money each year for a couple decades and <a class="vt-p" href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html">still have plenty left over</a>, thereby funding this initiative all by himself for a good long while, and yet wealthy progressives like the Gates&#8217; eagerly volunteer the money of others.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t really be generous or charitable with other peoples&#8217; money. Taking from them against their will or volunteering them to be targets of theft is immoral and unjust.</p>
<p>Anyone who is in favor of funding this initiative can simply devise a voluntary payment scheme and put up their own money. Then we&#8217;ll see how much progressives really care about the children.</p>
<p>Instead, they <a class="vt-p" href="http://gaplauche.com/blog/2010/10/23/distraction-and-waste-the-great-electioneering-spending-stimulus/">waste creativity, time, and money</a> manipulating the statist-democratic process and promoting majoritarian-populist initiatives with clever, emotional, yet substanceless propaganda.</p>
<p>Hypocrites.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>Cross-posted at <em><a class="vt-p" href="http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/10/28/wealthy-progressive-hypocrites-say-yes-on-initiative-1098/">The Libertarian Standard</a></em>.</p>
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