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Originally Posted by PBzeer
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From the comments to the above article:
Lord Tytler said it best when speaking of the fall of the Athenian Republic: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.”
Unfortunately history has a nasty habit of repeating it's self. Hopefully it will be many generations before this bit of history repeats, but it's a reminder that we all need to be vigilant. Tax/spend doesn't work, and borrow/spend is worse. It all has to stop, and it all begins in the capitol building not the white house.
I think we all need to subscribe to the Ted Nugent method of "keeping them honest". Call your congressional representative, and say "I noticed that I got a tax bill, what did you spend my money on and why?". Make them account for all of it, all the time, until they quit spending so much of our money.