Reply #130: Really?

[Murray_R]

"They transfer taxes into the pockets of their friends and some of it transfers back to them."

Is that like when the Democrats take tax dollars and give it to the UAW via 'seizing' bankrupt GM and ignoring existing secured creditor laws so they can screw the pension funds and other investors that held GM stock?

Or is it like doing an end-around on State balanced budget laws so that Democrats can take tax dollars and give them to teachers unions, a portion of which certainly makes its way back into Democratic campaign coffers?

The taxes that are 'stealing' are the taxes that are taken from person A, not to defend his property, rights and person, but instead to give to person B for having more political clout. That stuff happens across the spectrum. The notion that we can utilize the government's power to seize productive people's wealth in order that some may live at the expense of others is behind most government spending at the federal level. Way too many people expect to live at the expense of others, and the government provides a legal means to achieve this.