When in Rome...

Mrs. Happy Housewife

on September 20, 2011 4:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

"...The top 10 percent of earners pay nearly 70 percent of all income taxes, according to the I.R.S. People in the richest 1 percent pay 31 percent of their income to the federal government while the average worker pays less than 14 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office." - from "The New York Times"

If I didn't know better, I'd think President Obama was trying to morph America into Ancient Rome. There, too, a rich minority supported a majority welfare state.

And Rome fell.

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Married to my high school sweetheart. Mother of two. A housewife.

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