[RJL]

The record companies would... maybe give you a car, but you never got paid..."

Given a car, but not paid?

I'll bet Obama would want income taxes paid on the car even though the artists were not "paid".

[a fool in paradise]

A pimp will take every dollar you make, buy you a wardrobe to send you out on the streets, but then collect every dollar you brought in that night.

In a word, SOCIALISM.