One Step Gets Rid of the Democrats!

People on welfare are no longer allowed to vote!

One of the principles of the founding of the United States was the inherent injustice of "taxation without representation".  Now we suffer from an injustice of "representation without taxation".  Half of America doesn't pay taxes but they still vote and influence how taxes are spent.  The Democrats have been buying votes with public money for decades.   

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. "  Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have a vague memory of William F. Buckley once quoting Macaulay to this effect in an episode of Firing Line. So I went on Snopes, the wonderful "urban legends" resource. It told me that very similar sentiments are sometimes attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, a Scottish historian of some prominence in the early 19th century. He is supposed to have written, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship."

Hat tip to: http://cfaille.blogspot.com/2010/03/thought-from-macaulay-not-de.html