WELFARE STATE: 2008 Archives
THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA
When more than half the population is getting handouts and paying no taxes, a tipping point will have been reached. On current trend, hastened along by the Obama "tax cut" program to take money from taxpayers and give it to those who don't pay income taxes, that point will be reached by 2012 with a majority getting federal welfare. (That's assuming that today's slim majority of taxpayers will not be able to keep Congress from rubberstamping Obama's welfare plan.)
Mark Steyn sees the U.S. inexorably slipping down the European unsustainable welfare black hole.
The Death of the American IdeaContinue reading "THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA"An electorate living high off the entitlement hog.
By Mark Steyn
‘Give me liberty or give me death!”
“Live free or die!”
What's that? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs.
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