To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
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