No Turning Back?
My son wrote the following comments in an essay he finished today: “People understand the game, they know that they can vote government entitlements and funding to themselves, and politicians know that the leaders who can satisfy those demands will be liked. If you abandon reason and say, well, there is no definable limit to the role of government and what it can tax from people then anything is possible. That is why you have large sector of the population that lives off the state, a larger sector that pays no income tax, and a huge government bureaucracy that employs millions in comfortable but often useless jobs. There is a vast dependency and sense of entitlement that is easy to inflate, but almost impossible to reduce.” My son, N17
The following quote is attributed to Alexander Tytler: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they… can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Interesting links:
Percentage of Canadian Federal Income Tax by Income Percentile
http://www.mapleleafparty.ca/2011/04/20/percentage-of-federal-income-tax-by-income-percentile/
Canadian Income Tax Distribution by Province
http://www.mapleleafparty.ca/2011/04/21/canadian-income-tax-distribution-by-province/
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