"We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal"
The upper 2 per cent of wage earners already pay over 60 per cent of the taxes. The poor pay nothing. Nothing!
This is a country where the Departments of Welfare and Social Services practically meet them as they get off the plane or cross the border to offer them carte blanche welfare. This used to be a country where people came exclusively to work, succeed and raise their families in peace. Not anymore.
You can see which way the welfare incentive worked, as described in his book "Angela's Ashes" when Frank McCourt was growing up in America. Mr McCourts father was too much of a drunk to manage to support his family here in the States after immigrating in, so he decided to take his family back to Ireland in order to take advantage of the more readily available 'dole' over there.
If you don't like the tax situation in America try the Soviet Union, Communist China, or maybe even Vietnam.
The Democrats get to sound more like the Greeks every day. The Greeks pay their civil servants a bonus if they show up to work on time, 14 months pay for Christmas and on average they're able to retire at age 53.
The Germans just raised their retirement age to 68 in order to save enough money to be able to support the Greeks, the Italians, the Spanish, the Portugese, the Irish, and coming soon, the French.
