TOO MANY TAKERS -- NOT ENOUGH GIVERS

GOP USA -- Larry Elders -- 9/1/2011
Larry Elders on the Welfare State

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2011/09/01/elder-the-welfare-state-too-many-takers-not-enough-givers/?subscriber=1

Little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop, governments both in America and in Europe began taking more and more from people, diminishing the incentive of those on both sides of the transaction -- the taker and the giver. In America, nearly half of wage earners pay not one single dime in federal income taxes. Many of them trudge down to the local polling place or vote via absentee ballot -- and vote themselves a raise.

As my eighth-grade dropout, WWII ex-Marine dad used to say, "When you try and get something for nothing, you usually end up with nothing for something." Dad would have enjoyed chatting with the cabbie: "Too many takers -- not enough givers."

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