The answer is two-fold: We, Americans, are ignorant and lazy.  We have a system in this country that allows moochers, leaches and parasites to vote.  These moochers do not pay any income taxes; in fact they are the beneficiaries of a redistributive, progressive tax system.  We require absolutely nothing of these people, not even a freaking ID, to vote … it’s no wonder that our government has grown to its current size. 

Two political scientists, Jody W. Lipford and Bruce Yandle, did a study on taxation in America.  The results of their study led them to the conclusion that our progressive tax system where high-income earners sustain a high tax burden is simply unsustainable.  The reason is simple: the number of moochers are growing, while the number of producers are shrinking.  That’s a fact.  “The share of total federal taxes paid by the bottom 40 percent of households has fallen from 9.3 percent in 1979 to 5.2 percent in 2007, while the shares of the tax burden borne by the top 10 percent and one percent, respectively, have risen steadily,” according to their research.  This acts as nothing but an incentive for people to vote for government services that they don’t have to pay for. 

Voting is the lazy-man’s work.  Going to the voting booth once a year or so and voting for Democrats is much easier than waking up at 4am, working three jobs,  earning paychecks, and driving home in the dark.  Our progressive income tax system has enabled the moochers.  In fact, “during the period 1979-2007, the increasing progressivity of the federal tax code is associated with greater government debt and entitlement spending.”  Coincidence?  I think not.

Our forefathers predicted this.  In 1810, political theorist John C. Calhoun foresaw this problem:

"The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through disbursements, and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers."

We were warned, but then along came the Sixteenth Amendment establishing the income tax.  These political scientists Lipford and Yandle believe that the Sixteenth Amendment “nullified the prior constitutional restraint on the size of government and enabled one group of citizens to vote themselves benefits at the expense of another.”

There’s a woman in Michigan named Amanda Clayton.  You can read about this lovely little moocher right here.  Last fall Amanda won $1,000,000 in the state lottery.  Today she’s still on welfare and using food stamps?  Why?  She needs the help to pay her bills.  This is mooching raised to an art form.  Care to guess how she would probably vote in November?  (If she votes at all)

Now, modern day Democrats have made enabling the moochers an art form.  Is it any wonder why the FairTax and its conditional repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment scares the bejesus out of liberals?  According to these political scientists, the Sixteenth Amendment is the foundation for big government and redistribution!

But it gets even worse.  Keep reading …