Not that we needed any additional evidence that the government wastes money in truly spectacular fashion, but this story from the Detroit Free Press is especially disgusting and outrageous.
A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that he still uses food stamps. Leroy Fick of Bay County admitted he still swipes the electronic card at stores, nearly a year after winning a jackpot on “Make Me Rich!” He told WNEM-TV in Saginaw that more than half the prize went to taxes. Fick says the Department of Human Services told him he could continue to use the card, which is paid with tax dollars. He told WNEM: “If you’re going to … try to make me feel bad, you aren’t going to do it.” The TV station says people have seen Fick driving a new Audi convertible.
Normally I fell sorry for people who have 50 percent of their money confiscated by the tax authorities, but in this case I’ll make an exception.
The real lesson is that the federal government should get out of the redistribution business. State and local governments are far less likely to be this profligate. And if they do waste money, migration is a feedback mechanism that will penalize them for excessive handouts.
(h/t: Amanda Carpenter)
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table Nice one for looking at.
Leilani, the 16th amendment was ratified February 3, 1913 while the Titanic sank April 15, 1912. Why would you link the two in an easily disproven lie? They were separated by nearly a year. A tax on one’s livelihood is tyrannical. THAT’s a good ideological foundation against income tax. A made up story is not.
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No, Mr. Fick, I’d imagine we can’t make you feel badly on account of you not having an ounce of shame in your body. What a twit.
Income tax was passed when everyone was mourning the Titanic sinking. Was such a small blimp in the newspaper that it went without notice.
Taxation without justification is what will bring this government and country down.
One does have to look at the people and their culpability in a country filled with corruption, lack of responsibility and a total lack of fiscal responsibility.
What the majority of American people don’t realize is that government employees do not see themselves as part of American government because with their guarantee of employment, full benefits and abilty to operate corruptly, they already live in a state of socialist government. The are socialists already. Try getting one fired. Hell, even if they are caught stealing, they just get transferred, not fired. Most of the time they get a promotion.