There are some dimensions to argue on Thomas Paine's views. One of them is a distinction between natural rights and civil rights where the former describes the individual rights, while the latter generalizes rights of the society. Paine claims that civil rights are included in natural rights. Nowadays, the concept of American Dream is somehow based on that idea. However, not all of the arguments can be held true. For example, the difference between the lifestyles of rich and poor is a mere example of that. While Paine emphasized that the rich and poor are the same from judicial point of view or literally, they both have to pay taxes, we can observe completely different political landscape.