You are agreeing with me. We have plenty of resources. Your argument is you do not like how the system allocates those resources.

I think farmers who produce food are happy to sell there food to anyone that wants to buy it. But if government takes it without paying for it, as China learned the hard way, millions starve as farmers cease growing food. The greatest famine in history occurred when the government of China just took food from farmers to give to the poor.


As I noted money is used to allocate resources. The farmer gives his crops to whoever pays for them and used the money to buy what he wants. Poverty happens when someone does produce enough resources to trade for what they need.

Taxes take money people get by selling goods, labor and other resources and redirects it to where the government determines resources are needed, like entitlements and military weapons. However as noted when government takes to much people stop working and your economy starts to shrink and soon the poor starve.

Ask yourself, how much of what you earn could the government take before you would stop going to work? Alternatively, how much money would it take from the government for you to decide not to work, if working meant you lost it?