For those who think the founding fathers didn't know what they were doing when they set up the constitution or that they couldn't possibly imagine how far we would come and couldn't understand the complexities of our modern society read the following by John Adams.
“Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten
millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions
will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account
the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great
majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small
quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be
responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the
eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over
the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of
mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or
fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich,
and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would
come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in
dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with
its present possessors. Debts would abolished first; taxes laid heavy on
the rich, and not at all on the other; and at the last a downright equal
division of everything be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of
this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost
extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a
new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is
admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and
that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and
tyranny commence. If “Thou shalt not covet,” and “Thou shalt not steal,” were
not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every
society, before it can be civilized or made free.” John Adams
What he wrote sounds eerily like the book Atlas Shrugged. It also sounds like he has been reading the speeches of Obama, and the rest of our progressive representatives. It is clear in every society that the rough percentage of those who are perceived to have versus those who are perceived to not have will be about the same, but the principle of private property is there to protect everyone's property.
Our progressive representatives always talk as though they were not the rich, which is absurd! Which of us has a net worth of over 100 million dollars. If they were sincere about the rich giving more they would be the first to offer to give up huge amounts of their riches, yet oddly, or maybe not so oddly they always right exceptions into their laws to exclude them from the penalties they're enacting on others. Worse they got what they got but truly forcing it out of our pockets through confiscatory taxes. They truly produce anything for the money they take. The only thing they offer is more ways to take our money.
The idle are more than happy to take the work and money of the industrious especially if they can absolve their consciences by saying they didn't take it, they just voted for it, but that they agree with it. The truly said thing is that what the government takes from people never comes back to them to the same degree. This is redistribution of wealth. Your work, represented by the money you are paid is taken from you and given to someone else. This is the same as saying that you must work a certain amount of your time for your neighbor with no benefit to you except knowing that you helped someone.
Again our representatives love to pretend this is an act of charity or compassion on their parts, but they are not the ones being forced to work or give. As mentioned above they exempt themselves from every consequence of the laws they make.
Please read the paragraph above several times and see if it does not ring true with you.
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