06/18/2026
Here is an excellent post from Thomas Howell. That will help educate you in this area https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1975697266448607&set=a.909832123035132&type=3
Thomas Sowell said it decades ago, and the modern left keeps proving him right.
His point was simple. The left has almost no curiosity about how wealth gets made. They treat it like it fell from the sky.
The only question they find interesting is how to take it and hand it out.
Watch how that plays out today.
Bernie Sanders has flatly declared there should be no billionaires. Zohran Mamdani, now the mayor of New York City, ran on the same idea and is working to tax the wealthy out of town.
Neither one spends much time on the harder question. Who builds the business, signs the paychecks, and eats the loss when it all goes wrong?
That is the part they skip.
A whole wing of the young left talks like wealth is a fixed pile of cash sitting in a vault. Tip it over, share it out, and everyone is fine.
But wealth is not a pile. It is created, every single day, by people who get up early, take real risks, and build something other people are willing to pay for.
Here is the death spiral they refuse to see. Punish the people who create wealth, and they leave, or they stop creating.
New York is already getting a preview. Billionaire Ken Griffin says the city's tax fight is sending jobs straight to Miami.
Sowell warned about exactly this. Redistribute wealth and you do not end up sharing prosperity. You end up sharing poverty.
The Founders understood something the redistributors forgot. The right to keep what you earn, and to enjoy the fruits of your own labor, is not greed. It is the foundation of a free people.
You cannot redistribute what nobody is allowed to build.
Sowell was right. The only question left is how many cities have to learn it the hard way.