You, Don Brayton, wrote: >I have no problem with someone else having wealth as long >as they can not use it either to coerce me or to protect themselves from >retribution for fraud. Well, that's the nub of the issue, I agree. If there were any prospect of these conditions being met I would side with you. Unfortunately coercion and distortion of power relations is exactly what concentrated wealth does, as an attentive reading of our daily papers makes abundantly clear, day in and day out. Your apparent proscription for society--a radical laissez-faire economy--would only exacerbate this, I guarantee you. y'r obdt. Svt., Tresy