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On Mar 03 09:25 AM know nothing wrote:
> "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy > out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another > person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give > to anybody anything that the government does not first take from > somebody 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 work for, > that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply > wealth by dividing it."
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On Mar 03 09:25 AM know nothing wrote:
> "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
> out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
> person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give
> to anybody anything that the government does not first take from
> somebody 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 work for,
> that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply
> wealth by dividing it."