The Heart of the Problem! — Tyranny Rising!

SEE HERE Tyranny is when in a democratic republic the block of those who only receive benefits from the state and pay little or no income taxes become a large enough voting block to impose their will on the rest.  That is tyranny.  The point is not whether there are rich and poor.  Nor is the point that it is unfortunate that some are poor.  The point is that being poor is not a justification for robbing the rich.  It is not an answer that it is the government's prerogative to rob the rich for it is no less immoral when an institution engages in immorality as when it is the action of an individual.  Indeed when it is institutionalized we have warrant to suggest that the state itself has become immoral.

I am sympathetic to the 47% because they mostly don't pay income taxes because they don't make much money relative to those who do pay income taxes.  Moreover the fact that they don't pay income taxes is not the same as not paying taxes.  What I am complaining about is the government leveraging these people to vote themselves more power.  We need programs that raise people out of poverty by encouraging more training, development, initiative, entrepreneurship and things that  actually produce wealth instead of what we do do which is encourage dependency and a sense of entitlement where no real entitlement exists.