There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.
P. J. O'RourkeWherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.
P. J. O'RourkeThere are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
P. J. O'RourkeA politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.
P. J. O'RourkeEverybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
P. J. O'RourkeThen there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"
P. J. O'Rourke