By Henry I Miller
A couple of years ago seventh graders at a tony
private school outside San Francisco were
given an unusual Earth Day assignment: Make a list of environmental projects
that could be accomplished with Bill Gates’ fortune. This approach to
environmental awareness fits in well with the Obama-Pelosi-Reid worldview that
the right to private property is subsidiary to undertakings that others think
are worthwhile – the redistributive view of government. And how interesting
that the resources made “available” for the students’ thought-experiment were
not, say, the aggregate net worth of the members of Congress or of major league
baseball players but the wealth of one of the nation’s most successful,
innovative high-tech entrepreneurs.
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