Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.
The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.
Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
