Religious Liberty?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Equality and fairness mean different things to different people. I think of fairness in terms of justice, not wealth, and equality as being treated equality before for the law regardless of class or position. All agree that power and money tip the balance in favor of those with influence and good lawyers. If not for her political prominence Hilllary Clinton would have been in jail long ago and the Kelo decision would have gone the other way, protecting the property rights of regular folks against rich developers. Those abuses are wrong. I don't have the answers.

But others think fairness and equality are about the allocation of resources so that everyone has roughly the same amount of personal wealth. I don't think anyone has come up with a way to do this without using coercive force and curtailing freedoms to undermine property rights. Many, like me, see a clear link between property rights and freedom of conscience.

Liberty does not distinguish between rich and poor. To arbitrarily take away the property rights of anyone, rich or poor, is neither fair nor equal. It seems that "taxing the rich" always results in taxing the middle-classes more. Once in place, the policies of "fairness" used against the "rich" eventually get turned on everyone and we all lose.