> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM, M.A. Johnson <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > *
> > *I am all too afraid that a historian, a hundred years from now, will
> > footnote America as a historical curiosity where people once enjoyed private
> > property rights and limited government but it all returned to mankind's
> > normal state of affairs -- arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful
> > elite.

> Mr Williams is one of my favorite columnists.

> Unfortunately, he may be right about this.

> "Unfortunately, there is no way out of our immoral quagmire. The reason is
> that now that the U.S. Congress has established the principle that one
> American has a right to live at the expense of another American, it no
> longer pays to be moral. People who choose to be moral and refuse
> congressional handouts will find themselves losers. They'll be paying higher
> and higher taxes to support increasing numbers of those paying lower and
> lower taxes. As it stands now, close to 50 percent of income earners have no
> federal income tax liability and as such, what do they care about rising
> income taxes? In other words, once legalized theft begins, it becomes too
> costly to remain moral and self-sufficient. You might as well join in the
> looting, including the current looting in the name of stimulating the
> economy. "

> >http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/04/01/our_problem...