Re: Proportionality

The ruling class makes that decision, mainly for their benefit.


Fred Ghadry wrote:
"Virtually everything that a government does has some effect on the
distribution of income or wealth at the various levels of society.
Improvements in health care facilities disproportionately benefit the
sick, the old, and those about to have children. An increase in taxes on
tobacco and beer affects the poor disproportionately, while an increase
in capital taxes similarly disproportionately affects the rich. Even
regulatory and legislative activity benefits one group out of proportion
to another. The redistributive consequences of the governmental budget
can be reflected in a variety of ways; sometimes they are explicit and
sometimes they are cited in the debate that follows the presentation of
a budget. Usually, however, these consequences are hidden, unintended,
disproportionate, and imperfectly understood."

All of which leads to the question: What law, natural, divine, or
man-made, decrees that everything must be distributed proportionately?
Who makes the value judgments which decide who will have what and in
what proportion?

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