Eh .. keeps the people who are RECEIVING the free shit off the streets. Enough to not be stealing the rest of my shit anyway.
If that's the case, I'd rather take the money I'm being forced to piss away on giving people free shit and hire more police to keep them from stealing my shit. At least then it would be a little harder for them to steal it than stealing it via the voting booth. Table 1 of this document lays out who's getting what. Unless I see a better analysis, I have to assume that this is somewhat accurate. http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr172.pdf The top 1% of income earners pay an average tax burden of $777K and the government spends on them an average of $255K, meaning that they are paying in over $500K more than they get out PER YEAR. Turns out that the rich pay way more than their fair share already, relative to the benefits they get. Can you imagine a company charging customers $777K for a $255K product? How many customers would they be able to get to actually agree to those terms? Maybe 1 and his name would be Warren Buffett.
Wow, now your starting to sound like Stephen Abootman: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165188/im-stephen-abootman
Nitro, you sum it up very well. We need to wean the FREEloaders off the FREE SHIT because the SHIT has hit the fan! NO SHIT!
I am not summing anything up. It is in quotes. These are someone else's words not mine. It is important to understand all sides of an argument. I think that this is what people on ET and the tea partiers are saying. On the other other hand, there is a whole sector of people, who have done everything right, want no handouts, would be willing to work hard, and are still in a bad way. It makes no sense to point fingers because that is not solution oriented. I just think that the people that have money should give the world a break and take a chance and make investments. I don't mean give away stuff, although there is a time for that too. I mean take a chance and go out on a limb and start hiring even if you don't need the extra few workers, in the hope that if everyone pitches in a little, we can reach critical mass and start the economy up again. I actually think that the government has done too much in giving away stuff, when instead it should put that money to work by hiring people to build bridges/roads and/or repair them, clean up wastelands, and other government spending. But the batton has to be passed on to business at some point, and it is their turn to take risk, for the sake of us all.