“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion (lavish abundance) and servitude. If we run into such debts as that (as typical in Europe) we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanages to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.” — Thomas Jefferson (who really was an advocate for smaller government, little debt, and low taxes as were practically all the founding fathers)
We’ve made the wrong choice. Now the only question is, can we (or is it will we) choose to correct this grave mistake? Probably not…
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