"They try to take as much of our money as they can." Michael Moore on the wealthy. Out of context you'd think he was protesting the income tax. "Why don't you love your money and leave everyone else's alone?" he says. Why is it that capitalism is evil because people willingly patronize the "wealthy" and their institutions with consent? Yet this idea of "taking of money" is some how is honored, glorified, and patriotic where the government does it and does it by force and coercion? Does he not see that if there is this "theft" perpetrated by the stewards of the marketplace that there is compulsory theft perpetrated by the government? Why is the government some how removed from what is moral and right? Does the taking of part of one's earnings not imply that the government could take all of one's earning if it so chose? That we should be content that some benevolent government allows to keep what we have? Is it not true that laboring and not keeping the fruits of that labor is akin to slavery? Despite how many movies he makes I am thankful we live in a republic and not the democracy he falsely assumes, last thing we need is more intellectual wannabe's manipulating the masses further with false information. Its so ironic that he can preach the evils of capitalism when the idealistic opposites, communism, fascism and their proponents, have killed more than capitalism could ever dream to achieve (and yes, communism and fascism are cousins, they are not left / right but authoritarian, where capitalism is libertarian and socialism and corporatism fall somewhere in between). Capitalism has Norman Borlaug and Bill Gates on its side (practically exploding with philanthropy) and the authoritarian ideologies have Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and Mussolini... yeah, lets re-examine our definition of "evil".