You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person received without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything what the government does not first take from someone else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, that my dear friend is the end of every nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

©Christopher Stanley 2018