Posted on 29 August 2008. Tags: Alexander Tytler, ari fleischer, democracy, equitable taxation, lifecycle of civilizations, progressive taxation, redistribution, Rob Viglione, socialism, taxes in america, taxpaying minority, the fair tax
One of my friends just brought an interesting article to my attention. It’s a Wall Street Journal opinion piece written by Ari Fleischer (former White House Press Secretary) entitled “The Taxpaying Minority.” From the title you can guess he states the usual stats: top 40% of the population pays 99% of taxes, top 10% pay 71%, and the bottom 40% pay…NOTHING!
With the Earned Income Tax Credit many of these patriots even receive handouts by the federal government, taken from the rest of the chumps who pay taxes. When a large percentage of the population has no vested interest in the fiscal solvency of the state, they are prone to demand increasingly irresponsible programs until a crisis forces change. The Romans called the crisis ”civil war” after which a dictatorship was established.
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Posted on 30 May 2008. Tags: abundance, Alexander Tytler, apathy, Big Brother, bondage, complacency, democracy, dependence, dictatorship, Economics, free society, freedom, Greek, history repeats itself, liberty, life cycle of civilizations, Politics, Rob Viglione, serfdom, servitude, slavery, socialism, Videos, welfare state
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tytler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”
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