The Delaware Libertarian provokes our thought processes:

You didn’t buy an overpriced house that you couldn’t afford with money you didn’t have. But since “we’re all united,” you’ll be paying for others’ who threw caution to the wind and signed contracts that they didn’t bother to understand (or even read).

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You didn’t take out huge home equity loans for Disney vacations, expensive cars, and designer furniture. But since “we’re all united,” the money you’d be saving for a down payment for a home of your very own will be taxed away from you to pay for others’ vacations, cars, and furniture. You’ve got to help your fellow man, you know. We’re united.

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You didn’t ask for, nor did you receive, risky loans on stupid assets from poorly managed banks. But since “we’re all in this together,” you’ll be paying higher taxes on massive increases in debt to ensure that the executives of the top banks get to stay in their penthouse suites and keep their prior years’ bonuses and payouts intact.

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For so many of us, “unity” means little other than being good little citizens who sit down, shut up, pay up, and accept the “inspired micromanagement” of self-promoting politicians who have never had a real job in their lives.

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We are to subsume our own dreams to pay for the foolishness of others. Our responsible conduct in the face of an insane consumption economy is a designation for punishment. The fruits of the excesses were not ours, nor will they ever be — but the pain is ours to share, the liabilities are ours to pay for, and the ill-gotten gains remain in the hands of those who took them in the first place.

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