The left has some clever main strategies for getting their hands on the vast amounts of money required to pay for their Robin Hood programs. It is buried in their foundation words like "citizen" and "society" and in my favorite phrase "pay your fair share." I hear that one on the news everyday "corporations need to pay their fair share!"
Let's take a closer look at that phrase. The poor don't pay any income taxes and yet they get all those "benefits." All those benefits are paid for by somebody else, not them. I don't see how THAT fits under pay your fair share. Monetarily speaking, that is as unfair as it gets. And with the progressive tax idea, the more money you generate the more "fair" it is to take your money apparently. I don't know how they got away with that one, but I think it goes back to "citizen of society" concepts. By framing the issue around our big happy family, our society, all people are members. As an esteemed member of the group, you the citizen (member), are entitled to a wonderful set of benefits and rights! Notice how the word "entitled" just slips right through that door along with "member." Clever huh? You have to admire that. You are an "equal" member in our big club and you get to "share" in the benefits! This sounds great doesn't it? There is a tiny problem however in that all you have to do to become a "member" is to be BORN. That is pretty much it. You don't really have to pay your fair share at all! That part is a lie. Just "show up" and open your hand. Now I am only speaking monetarily here as that is my main concern, not to ignore the "humanitarin" aspects of all of this. I know this all sounds so callous but I am talking about the simple math here. Math is callous, and it cannot be ignored. So you see how the left has made these ideas SO compelling, mainly to the poor, and ultimately beneficial to themselves as well, because along with giving out all the goodies they get those votes. It is the greatest system ever devised. Right up until the money runs out. We have arrived there. Now it gets ugly. All those members firmly believe in these ideas of entitlement. It is burned into their very DNA. We are in for quite the catfight. Too bad we couldn't have had this simplistic debate earlier. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
