Without Bill Gates...there is no Microsoft. So, that mega-rich CEO >was< the true source of prosperity for a half-dozen billionaires and a few hundred millionaires and thousands of employees.

Of course...you just picked a bad example...you should have stuck to corps where the founders are dead ;-)

Small question...in Europe where the tax codes do extort the rich...what do the rich do?

They leave.

And you rightfully notice that many companies are >moving< outside the US. Those >jobs< that you consider all important.

Why?

Because the regulations, tax burden and labor expense make it more profitable to go elsewhere.

The solutions are not in the tax codes. The solutions are in reducing the burdens on everyone by eiminating the bullshit our layers upon layers upon layers of government have created.

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Yes Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction. It is >extreme<. A fable with a moral. Or did you not understand the lesson's taught by the fables because...for example...the Pied Piper really didn't kidnap all the children in town? Its not gospel. In fact, I find most "objectivists" to be extremely annoying.

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And if you ask 100 people...99 of them won't even know who Linus Torvalds is. But again...you just picked a bad example...right?