"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the
wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person
must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
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 gets the idea that it does no good to
work because somebody else is going to get what they work for
-- that, my dear friend, is the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
These good words from Adrian Rogers are meaningless because
of the 24th Amendment. To vote in the United States you had to
have a vested interest - own property, pay taxes, etc. Politicians
know well that a homeless person living on the street has as much
power in the voting booth as anyone in the elite 5% who pays the
majority of the tax revenue received by the United States. They
only need 50.1% for re-election.
