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Originally posted by Dragonlich
I've always felt the US' general distrust of it's government was rather excessive. Perhaps it's just a culture thing, something that grew from the US (anti-UK) civil war? I doubt you'd see such a level of mistrust in my country, for example.
Generally, I'd say that mistrust of the government comes from previous bad examples.
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How are these for examples:
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
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Additionally, I read the other day that 47% of US children are born into "poverty." Not sure if "poverty" means lack of cable TV.
In my life, I've never gone wrong by following the money. When 47% of US children are raised to believe they are entitled to money taken from the rest of us, what do you think the end result will be?