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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 08:47 AM
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Equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome
A republican friend of mine once claimed that republicans are for equality of opportunity, wheras democrats are for equality of outcome.

I thought his analysis was overly simplistic, and not terribly accurate, but let's take it a step further, and see what y'all think:

To be primarily concerned with ensuring equality of opportunity is a libertarian outlook.

To be primarily concerned with ensuring equality of outcome is a communistic outlook.

In between the two is a continuum of increasing socialistic outlook.

Anybody care to expand on this?
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:09 AM
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