Who are "our lot" and "their lot?"

We? By "we" do you mean people who like and in the main play folk music? Or do you mean those who have less than others?

Don't drag all contributors to any level. We are all different, that's what makes the debate relatively healthy.

You know, the 90% you speak about is a bit wide. It includes all 40% tax payers and many 50% tax payers. Most of whom are happy with their lot and see redistribution of wealth for what it is, an abstraction. Redistribute it and suddenly realise it never existed in the first place. Old Lenin used to sit there wondering where the Czar kept the stash... Don got it right above when he pointed out that in order to have wealth, it has to be created.

Redistribute it and the trade and industry assets that create wealth are locked in to the purchase of Micro Chips whilst watching Cash in the Attic. (Note to self, buy shares in McCains just in case.)

Me? I'd trust the Duke of Westminster to stoke the economy more than the feral buggers who owe me rent.....

Mind you, I live in hope of perhaps one day, G20 clipping the wings of international conglomerates and banks in order to ensure a level playing field. But like the wannabe Trotskys, I can dream.