"Tax the rich!"

From the "Letters to the Editor" section of the News-Gazette, 3-4-08:

I did not vote for Barack Obama and don't agree with him on anything. However, I came across a quote by Dr. Adrian Rogers (a Christian minister and three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention) that I would like to share with your readers. It speaks for itself.

"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."

Think about it.

MARSHALL LIPSCOMB

Champaign

Source: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2009/03/04/new_taxes_on_wealthy_wont_help_others