[DuncanWaring]

“Stripping motivated people of their freedom and dignity, and rubbing their noses in it, is a very bad idea.”

Didn't John Ross say something to that effect?

[Robert Teesdale]

Yes, from Unintended Consequences, hence the quotation marks. Here's more of it... the prologue from that book is worth reading for every statist.

Today in America, honest, successful, talented, productive, motivated people are once again being stripped of their freedom and dignity and having their noses rubbed in it. The conflict has been building for overhalf a century, and once again warning flags are frantically waving while the instigators rush headlongtowards the abyss, and their doom.