Con's don't want themselves or the wealthy to pay taxes... Do they expect to Freeload off of Working Americans?

Whether of not you think it is "fair," it is the system we have. It is designed so that people who do NOT have power and wealth can still have a say in the government, through the ballot box. Those answers that recommend means testing for the ballot box have short memories or perhaps have not studied, let alone lived through, much history.

Means testing has a pretty ugly side. There was a time in our history where only "property owners" were allowed to vote. That ruled out renters, male or female, tenant farmers, and women, because at some periods, women were prohibited from owning property.

Added as an edit - Busterwasmycat has a good point. Wealth distribution in the country is --well, not distributed. 1% of AMericans control enormous amounts of wealth.

The top 10% of Americans have more money than the other 90% combined. The "poor" in American have nothing. You might want to google "wealth distribution in the US."

Some of the charts are eye-opening. I don't particularly want to go back in time when workers who lived at the company town didn't have a say in governing that town. I don't want to go back to a time when the (mostly poor) tenant farmers like my own grandfather would have been prohibited from voting because he didn't own the land where he worked 18 hour days to earn a living that did little more than "scrape by."

I do not want to go back to a time when my 30 year-old son had the right to spend money I had earned and saved and invested, but I did not have that right myself. That's what means-testing at the ballot box was. It doesn't mean it has to be what it is, but think about the larger picture.

People who do not have much have a right to drive over bridges that are well maintained, even if those bridges are not in the affluent part of town. They have a right to have the protection of the army, even if what they have may not seem worth protecting to those who have more. They have the right to medicare and social security payments, because that's the system we have.

If you don't like it, vote for a different system, but I like democracy just fine.

Unfortunately, the way the voting laws work at this time they evidently have every right. And doing anything about it is going to be extremely difficult. Like it's been said, it's nearly impossible to beat Santa Clause at the voting booth.

We need a change to our entitlement mentality. People receiving free stuff from Uncle Sugar should have to earn it by way of public service as long as they are on the charity rolls. These should be the types of jobs that "American's won't do".

I could see this having at least two benefits for America. Number 1, it would encourage those getting free stuff to look for other more meaningful employment, and 2, it might dry up those types jobs that many illegal aliens come here to do.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.