The Greediest People in America Are Liberal Democrats

By John Hawkins The perfect place to start a column like this is with that notorious Elizabeth Warren quote that made liberals fall in love with her.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

Have you ever noticed how many straw men and false assumptions there are in those few short sentences? For one thing since roughly 45 of Americans pay no income taxes at all the rest of us" didnt pay for roads education police forces or a military. Of course that doesnt even tell the whole story because 60 of American households receive more from the government than they pay in taxes. In other words if you pay more in taxes than you receive from the government you are a MINORITY in America today. As someone whos probably not going to be in the top 1 of income earners this year (The years not over yet and Im an optimist!) but who pays a lot more in taxes than I receive in government services let me just note that I APPRECIATE those 1ers who are paying nearly half of all federal income taxes. Real world if you add it all up most of these people are paying somewhere around 50 of their net income in taxes. The ones that arent typically are paying a capital gains tax which should be called the Were going to hit you again on the money you already paid on once because we can" tax. The reason I appreciate them is that there are so many people who arent paying a dime in income tax toward the good of the nation. If those of us who are paying more in taxes than we take in government services arent paying our fair share" then what about the people who arent paying any income tax at all? Im greedy because I dont want to pay any more in taxes? No greed is wanting to take government services paid for by everyone else without paying ANYTHING for them. Didnt those people take the same road to Wal-Mart as the rest of us? Werent schools made available to them? Didnt the police protect them too? So why shouldnt they be paying SOME TOKEN INCOME TAX for that when liberals like Elizabeth Warren Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have the gall to accuse other people of not paying their fair share?" I will acknowledge that ALL AMERICANS myself included SHOULD have to pay something for the roads street signs police the military and other commonly used utilities. But why should I have to pay for Planned Parenthood Obamacare and bank bailouts that I oppose 100? Why should I have to pay for PBS? For the disability and welfare fraud that the government seems to no longer care about preventing? To school the kids of illegal aliens who shouldnt be in this country in the first place? Sure no matter how small the government may be there will always be some programs that are controversial but what happens when the majority of federal spending is on programs a taxpayer opposes or must be forced to participate in? Thats where many of us are in America today; yet were still called greedy" and told that we should be happy to pay even more of our tax dollars to a corrupt incompetent government that regularly works against our interests. Well let me tell you something: Thats not GREED. GREED is accusing OTHER PEOPLE of not paying their fair share" when youre living off their money and not paying any income tax at all. GREED is forgoing giving money to charity because you support a government program that gives OTHER PEOPLES MONEY to the poor and yes studies do show that conservatives give more to charity than liberals. GREED is bringing in large numbers of immigrants and illegals who are taking some form of welfarebecause you think theyll vote for you. GREED is saying Were going to campaign by asking people to give us their votes in return for programs you oppose that were going to create with YOUR MONEY." If you want to find the GREEDIEST people in America just turn on C-SPAN the next time Congress is in session and look at the liberal Democrats.