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In what context do you mean "money you did not earn?"
Do you mean if your grandmother passed away and left your an inheritance?
Or, you found an old mattress with $50,000 sewed inside it, that you got from the Goodwill store?
Or, you were walking down the street and found a bank bag stuffed with $12,304 for the daily deposit from a business?
Or, you never worked, not disabled, living down in the humid basement with your mom and dad upstairs and you are 42 years old and have no car or means of support, so your parents pay your cell phone bill and buy your video games?
The first two are keep and the last two are not.
People drop things off at goodwill and go. They don't leave a name and contact info. There's no way to trace where this came from unless you consider it to belong to Goodwill. Does it? How does it not belong to me if they have no idea it was there and I bought it with the mattress? How would you even begin to try and figure out where it came from? What lunkhead puts 50 grand in a mattress and forgets about it? Maybe they shouldn't have it because they obviously don't know what to do with it.
I have no problem with gift giving and receiving. It isn't forced. I do have a problem with the concept of because I have more than someone else that I need to be punished for that by paying a higher percentage in taxes while receiving no more in exchange.
If 3 people order the same exact meal should the restaurant owner be allowed to charge more based upon the income of those each of the 3 people eating?
How about renting a house? Should a landlord be able to charge me more for the exact same apartment just because I make 90 grand a year and the other Tennant only makes 70?
How about employers. Should they pay Joe more than me simply because he has 3 kids and I only have 2?
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