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The Left’s Egalitarian Trap (and Why Republicans Must Not Step In)

By Michael A. LaFerrara

Dec 05, 2012
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If Republicans cave to the Democrats’ demand to raise taxes on “the rich,” they will have conceded the left's immoral premise that the highest income earners—the so-called one percent—deserve to have their wealth confiscated because they are the wealthiest.

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