The overgrown wealth of an individual is dangerous to the State

[fasttense]

"An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property." - The Sixteenth Article to the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights 1776.

Is too much wealth concentrated in too few hands dangerous to democracy?

By what I have seen in the last 26 years, I believe corporations or individuals who have accumulated excessive amounts of wealth seem to be addicted to it. They come to regard their exaggerated wealth as a justification to control not only their massive wealth but their governments as well.

All things in moderation. Is too much of anything dangerous - even wealth?

[Glorfindel]

1. Of course it; ESPECIALLY wealth

Remember Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against "malefactors of great wealth"? Same situation now. If it keeps getting worse, and I expect that it will, the solution that France discovered in 1789 might just be the next step. :evilgrin: