What Happens When Looters and Moochers Outnumber Workers and Producers?

What Happens When Looters and Moochers Outnumber Workers and Producers?
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/C...danmitchel.jpg Daniel J. Mitchell

The all-time, most-viewed post on this blog is this set of cartoons showing how the welfare state begins and how it eventually becomes an unsustainable mess. The great Chuck Asay has a cartoon that takes the next step, showing what happens when the looters and moochers who ride in the wagon get pitted against those who are pulling the wagon.
Since I’m not a Romney fan (for a bunch of reasons outlined here), I would have preferred if the cartoon didn’t imply anything about the current election and instead focused on the rhetorical question of what happens to a society when those living off the government outnumber those who get stuck picking up the tab.

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It also would have been more accurate to have the two slave drivers somehow identified as “politicians” and the “IRS.”


What Happens When Looters and Moochers Outnumber Workers and Producers? - Daniel J. Mitchell - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1