(03-26-2021, 04:59 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I remember reading something a while back (don't remember where and can't find it) where a study said that if you took all wealth and re-distributed it equally among all people, it was a relatively short time where the former "wealthy" people would be wealthy again and the former "poor" people would be poor again.

Ask the average person that you come across in your daily life what they would do if they suddenly had $10,000,000.00.  I'll bet the answers would range from buying something to taking a vacation.

Look at what so many professional athletes do when they sign a big contract.  You see them driving fancy expensive cars, buying huge homes and wearing the "bling".  There are many that squandered the opportunity that they earned and ended up with basically "nothing".

Giving people a hand out does nothing for them.  Giving people a hand up does.  The "COVID relief stimulus" checks are hand outs.

You keep on throwing out specious and faulty reasoning like this.
yes, those are exactly the responses you would get if you ask people what they would do with 10 million dollars.
Yes, only some would use it in a way that they stayed wealthy long-term.
But that's not the type of handout we're discussing.
We're discussing one thousand dollars. A handout that is four orders of magnitude smaller.
It's like saying you once took a ride on the Oasis of the seas, so you're more than prepared to handle my 25 ft motor boat.

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