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At first, the headline over Cal Thomas' column, "Billionaires shouldn't be punished for success" (Opinion, July 12), made me suspect that Ayn Rand, the 20th century's indefatigable champion of unfettered capitalism and radical individualism, had been revived and was busy writing again.
After reading Thomas' column, I wondered why he chose Alexandre Dumas' "Nothing succeeds like success" for his piece's epigraph. Instead of Dumas' quotation, it would have been more apt to quote Oscar Wilde's parody: "Nothing succeeds like excess."
Christopher Stone
Ogden