It's No Wonder that State Governments Can't Pay Their Bills!!

[FayeforCure]

A capitalist society is the only one that I know where you can earn as much as you want, or since the 60s, earn as little thanks to Medicare and the "great welfare experiment" that has been blown so far out of proportion it now sucks every state and Federal budget of funds, because our society has gotten L-A-Z-Y, allowing for people to live off the state, instead of getting out there, pulling up the bootstraps and WORKING THEIR TAILS OFF for a better living.

Nothing in our constitution says you have to be poor and nothing says you will get rich, but your mind and ambition set the limits of your wealth. Forget the tax issues, get your lazy butts off the sofa throw away the Wii and get out and take responsibility for your own life and make the world a better place by living off your own self-worth, rather than sucking from the life of every taxpayer.

What a sick analysis of our current recession. It's so neocon boilerplate it isn't even funny.

I will ask you just one question: Do you think the almost 1 million people ( 11.5%) who are unemployed in Florida are just LAZY?

How dare you add insult to injury!

On second thought, one more question: What do you do for a living that hasn't been affected by the recession?

Let's step a way from the luxury of spouting LIES to hurt others, and to make oneself feel better than the rest.

[JeffreyS]

We had to lay some people off this year. I do not think any of them where lazy.

[fatcat]

tax can be collected from "income", "spending" or "wealth" non of them is fair.  Tax not only pays for the expense of various level of government, which I consider approximately "pay for service"  and "re-distribution".

I personally do not have problem with "pay for service" but I do have problem with "re-distribution". The re-distribution is pushing the country towards what the Soviet and Chinese have abandoned.

Disclaimer: I do not consider unemployment benefits , social security retirement,  medicare benefits part of  "re-distribution". They are insurance programs. They are not perfect but that is an other topic.