re: #687 Ford_Prefect

I agree that the census play is bad. But there is another thing in play that I think worse.

The Top 50% of taxpayers earn $31,987 per year and pay 97.01% of federal income taxes. That Bottom 50% pay less than 3%.

Many in the Bottom 50% actually get more back from the federal government than they pay in via things like the EITC.

We are at the tipping point where the majority will be totally supported (at least with respect to government services) by the minority.

Once this happens there is not going back. The majority will demand more and more from the minority because it costs them nothing. The only way to go back is if the government falls apart and we start over again.