J&I have been doing a lot of learning about WWII. Of course, being European, he'd learned a lot more about it in school than do Americans as well as having parents and grandparents who lived through it in a way few of us can claim. In school, there's usually a whole lot of names and dates and events to memorize, but little really hits home
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Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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The sad thing is that a lot of these people don't see the government handing them money (taken from someone else, of course) and healthcare and other goodies as a form of slavery and dependence. They usually see it as someone else owes it to them or that they can't (read: won't or didn't plan to) procure it on their own so someone else should.
I'm probably preaching to the choir, though.
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The government that has the ability to give you everything also has the ability to take it away.
The more that the government taxes you the more freedom it takes away. The freedom to purchase a better house, to go to a better school, the choices you make since in this world most choices are based upon the ability to purchase what you need or want.
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At this point, the idea just wouldn't work on a practical level because people are just way too selfish, power hungry, and even lazy to be honest about it. Instead of honestly working as hard as one can, it would be used as an excuse to not do as much... much like the Welfare System now. It's too bad, really.
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We're an opportunistic species, though, and if we can stay aloft via someone else's efforts, we tend to seek that route, if possible. :-/
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