The righteous Bill Whittle expounds on the results when we basically extract every penny we can from the ‘rich‘. What Bill doesn’t get into is what happens in Year 2 when the ‘rich‘ decide to go on an Atlas Shrugged strike. From Ms. Rand herself:

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

She’s basically saying that when the governing body of a so-called free people start looking to the ‘rich‘ – well there’s trouble ahead. And just to underline the point, here is a quote from Baroness Margaret Thatcher:

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.