There really are two Americas… the one that works hard, pays the taxes and demands fiscal responsibility of its representatives… the other sits back and mooches off the other.
It’s no coincidence, then, that while 47% of U.S. households pay NO federal income taxes at all, 45% feel like their tax burden is “about right”. Of course they think it’s “about right”…in fact, the bottom 40 percent, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment. While the other 53% foot the bill.
It’s also no surprise how the two Americas come down on the massive new entitlement program called Obamacare… 58% favor repealing it, while 38% think it’s “about right”.
There’s been an old quote widely circulated on the Internet over the years that sums this phenomenon up pretty well.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Democrats are champions of the freeloaders. Unfortunately for them, they’re running out of our money. Fortunately for us, they’re also running out of time.