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Originally Posted by adpimiz
Some quotes I saw the other day that I enjoyed..
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that it does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half get the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
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Can anyone identify one wealthy person who has been "legislated" "out of prosperity" or one poor person who has been "legislated" "into prosperity"?
And exactly where does the idea that "half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them" come from?
There are so many unfounded assumptions in bumper stiker sloganeering that it makes my head hurt. Yes, sometimes the pithiness can be enjoyed at face value, but too often it can't stand up to any actual examination.
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