Edmund Burke never worked with this congress. They don't have either the sense or the will to upset the welfare apple cart at this point. In order to be fair, you would have to tax everyone. That would hinder the redistribution of the wealth. Read my lips:
They will not do it.
Edmund Burke never worked with this congress. They don't have either the sense or the will to upset the welfare apple cart at this point.
They do it when the preceive their cushy jobs at risk. For if they do not their replacements will.
The Honorable James DeMint (R-SC)
United States House of Representatives
APRIL 5, 2001
- "There has been a shift in the relationship between individuals and government, he argues, such that fewer and fewer are paying taxes at the same time that more and more are receiving increasingly generous benefits. If it becomes the case that most voters do not bear a financial burden for this largess, then there will be little to restrain--and significant political incentives to encourage--the continued growth of government.
| I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accepts it. Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power. Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them. |