The Failure of Big Government

Facts to think about when espousing Big Government as the Answer

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. 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  the beginning of the end of any nation.


5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it

6.  As any Government expands, Liberty contacts at a squared ratio

7. Government is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not,
     diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy, "Ad nauseam"

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 8. Socialism: A class of people who have seized power, rights, and properties
     of the State without any risk to themselves. Who then farm out all the labor, duties,
     and responsibilities of the State to the very people they swore to set free.
                  After all "Some animals are more Equal then others"

9. "A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big  
       enough to take away everything that you have"

10. “The art of Socialism is to force 2/3rds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay  
          for the benefit of the other 1/3rd.” 

11. "Big Government does not solve problems; it creates them, and then subsidizes them.”