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To: pnh102

Walter E Williams proposed that every net taxpayer gets a vote but for every additonal $5K you pay in income taxes you get an additonal vote!
Brilliant!

A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s greatest democratic nations has been 200 years.

Each has been through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith.
From faith to great courage.
From courage to liberty.
From liberty to abundance.
From abundance to complacency.
From complacency to selfishness.
From selfishness to apathy.
From apathy to dependency.
And from dependency back again into bondage.


34 posted on 12/01/2010 2:08:15 PM PST by griswold3 (Employment is off-shored, away from govt. regulations, price pressure groups, and liabilities.)
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To: griswold3
Walter E Williams proposed that every net taxpayer gets a vote but for every additonal $5K you pay in income taxes you get an additonal vote! Brilliant!

Walter Williams sometime has his head up his ASS. Liberal Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and others would set the agenda....

43 posted on 12/01/2010 2:12:51 PM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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