MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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Should welfare recipients be able to vote?
Fuck no.
Firstly, the federal government has no authority to steal from "A" to give "B". So it has no authority to operate a welfare state.
Be that as it may, welfare recipients will vote for whomever promises to increase their benefits.
Welfare recipients should not be permitted to use their vote as an ATM card which they can use to access the US treasury.
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Tytler: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
I don't know who Tytler is, but I do know who Ronald Reagan was, and this is his most quoted remark on democracy:
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."