Do you understand the story of Robin Hood?

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He did not exactly "steal from the rich and give to the poor." He stole from the tax collectors and gave back to the taxpayers. The evil rich were rich because they were stealing from the poor and calling it "taxes." They lived like kings, and those who actually worked for a living could barely get enough to eat.

So, those of you who thinks it's great to steal from the evil rich to give to the poor should realize that today's equivalent would be taking money back from pork programs, excessive politician salaries, and welfare slackers in order to give the money back to the hard-working taxpayers who actually earned the money.

The moral of the story is that it is wrong to steal what someone else has earned. You need to make sacrifices in your own life to make ends meet. All responsible adults do this when things get tight. Robin Hood did not steal what someone else had earned. He only stole back what had been taken from the poor.

Pfo · Accepted Answer

There's something about Robin Hood though that justifies his actions, in all versions of the stories told the poor have literally no money, and anything they come across is confiscated as a tax.  It's pretty much 100% taxation.

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Robin Hood replaced into an outlaw who remained dependable to King Richard whilst King John got here to the throne. For that he replaced into dispossessed of his lands and banished. He took risk-free haven in Sherwood woodland with a band of adult adult males dependable to him and commenced to make guerilla conflict on King John's followers - somewhat robbing all and sundry wealthy and allotting the money to those much less fortunate. The Sherriff of Nottingham tried to catch him yet failed. ultimately King Richard decrease back from the Crusades, deposed his brother and Robin, or Robert of Loxley as he replaced into formally standard, replaced into restored his call and his land. whilst Robin replaced into loss of existence he shot an arrow from the room in his citadel and asked, the place the arrow lands, there I prefer to be buried. Or so the legend is going...

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We need a couple million Robin Hoods

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I think we have a fundamental disagreement on who is doing the stealing and who is doing the earning...

I simply don't believe that a CEO is doing 1,000 times more work than the worker... and I think paying him that much, is kind of like stealing... and it's just gotten worse and worse over the past 10-20 years... CEOs making more and more (often by finding ways to cut more and more jobs), while worker wages have stagnated...

in today's "market"... "high earners" seem to be much more like theives...

Anonymous · Answer

the evil king over taxed the peasants of the land, and Robin Hood went and took their tax money back.

Mr. Timed · Answer

So by your logic, Robin Hood would also steal from the Banks, and Wall St. Good to know.

Janian · Answer

Yes, it's wrong to steal, but your taxes aren't being stolen. They go towards infrastructure and education.
The people who are the 'evil rich' nowadays are people who don't pay taxes (but are able to)and still use the services.

Iron_Plague · Answer

Yes, I do understand it.  It is a story about a thief that has been used to justify "redistribution" of wealth by the left.

Thank you for asking.

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Do you understand the story of Robin Hood?

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