Political Quotes

“Madam President, the Democratic Party's motto this year might as well be ``Free Stuff''--free healthcare, free college, free debt relief, free childcare, and free income. The problem, of course, is that the old adage ``There is no such thing as a free lunch'' is 100 percent true. Healthcare has to be paid for by someone. College has to be paid for by someone. Democrats, of course, think they should all be paid for-- and often controlled--by the government, but what they don't like to talk about as much is that the government has to get its money from somewhere, and that somewhere is the American people. If you ask Democrats how they are going to pay for all of this free stuff, what they will say is, they will tax the rich. The problem is, there simply aren't enough people to even come close to paying for the Democrats' free programs and expansive policy proposals. Every year, Forbes magazine reports the combined net worth of the 400 richest people in the United States, but if you took every penny from every one of those people, it would be a tiny drop in the bucket next to the cost of the Democrats' proposals. Free healthcare alone--and these are my conservative estimates--would cost $32 trillion over 10 years. Taking every penny from the richest people in the United States wouldn't even cover 1 year of that proposal.…”