Instapundit - “The Drawbridge Effect”

Instapundit - You’ve made your money. Now the very last thing you want is for all those trashy middle class people below you to have a fair shot at getting as rich as you are. 

This dovetails with what James Delingpole dubbed  “The Drawbridge Effect” a decade ago:

You’ve made your money. Now the very last thing you want is for all those trashy middle class people below you to have a fair shot at getting as rich as you are. That’s why you want to make energy more expensive by opposing Keystone XL; why you’re all for environmental land sequestration (because you already own your exclusive country property); and Agenda 21 – which will make all Americans poorer, but you not so much, because you’ve enough cash to cushion you from the higher taxes and regulation with which the greenies want to hamstring the economy.

No wonder the left hates anyone who wants to lower that drawbridge... - Ed Driscoll