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Because that's what redistribution of wealth does--it takes money from you to "sustain the necessary things, like roads and bridges!" and then it's no longer your money, it's OUR money.
This is the mindset that we've all gotten used to, and that's what the redistributionists bank on. How different would things be if we had to write a check to the government EVERY TIME we got a paycheck, to give the government "its share".
The Progressive Movement has bamboozled America into abandoning its principles of basic inalienable human rights and the rule of law.
It is because we’ve raised generations of people who think they are owed things from government. It doesn’t matter to them who pays the bill as long it isn’t them.
The dumbing down of America.
Unfortunately, too many of our citizens don’t know where government gets its money.
Recall that woman in Detroit who said “money comes from Obama?”
This is a GREAT post. Thanks for the same.
An excellent article, but there’s a better answer to the question of how much government has the right to take in taxes. It’s not all or nothing. Government is perfectly moral to take taxes to pay for legitimate functions as enshrined in the US Constitution. It only becomes theft when tax money is given to people who are not otherwise earning it in service to the country. Welfare, for example, is immoral. Paying folks to build roads, on the other hand, is a legitimate, moral role of government.
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The People's Historian? Howard Zinn was a master of agitprop, not history Listen to the Audio Version (MP3) in comment# 1. IIRC, MP3 media can be downloaded to IPods. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. This might be useful for young heads full of mush.
Backing down on climate change
Walter Russell Mead: Why Climate Science Is On Trial IMHO, it's a very good essay about how and why any science subject gets politicized, especially "climate science."
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Awesome article. Thank you so much for posting it.
This article is total hogwash. Everyone knows that the Government has a gold mine out in Colorado or someplace. Whenever they need more money to give to the people who won’t work, they just put on an extra shift. If that weren’t true the Government would be forced to take the money at the point of a gun from the people who do work. No one actually believes our benevolent Government would ever do such a thing. Do they?
"It's for a worthy cause," we tell ourselves, oblivious to the fact that the Eighth Commandment doesn't say "Thou shalt not steal ... except by majority vote or unless it's for the poor." ...Indeed, Bastiat called the state "the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." ...Governments don't produce wealth; they only take it and redistribute it... Many reason that democracy somehow sanctifies and legitimates the forcible redistribution of wealth. For them, democracy sanitizes and civilizes the process of taking someone's honestly earned property. They don't perceive this as robbery. But if this isn't robbery, then what is it?Thanks neverdem. And if this isn't robbery, then what is?
Good post. I agree completely!
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