So is equality for all the best goal? What are the long term consequences? I know when I see my tax bill, I often want to put my resume on Monster and get a union or government job.
I am not sure if this is a true story, but it resonates with me - a business owner, a job creator and a tax payer.
An economics
professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single
student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had
insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one
would be rich, a great equalizer.
The
professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on
Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the
same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting
grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by
all).
After
the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who
studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the
second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even
less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they
studied little.
The
second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the
3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the
tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and
name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the
benefit of anyone else.
To their
great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would
also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is
great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want
to succeed.
It could
not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)
Remember,
there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These
are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this
experiment:
1. You
cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of
prosperity.
2. What
one person receives without working for, another person must work for without
receiving.
3. The
government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first
take from somebody else.
4. You
cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. 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 is the beginning of the end of any nation.
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