Thoughts on Democracy

I was perusing Bill "The Vibrator" O'Reilly's book, Who's Looking Out for You, and I was reading the part about Hillary Clinton and saw this great quote. It is from a Scottish historian Alexander Tytler in 1787,

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy."


I absolutely despise the notion that somehow one individual is entitled to someone else's money. Even a flat tax is unfair because one person pays more money than someone else; a graduated tax is absolutely unfair. You always hear about tax cuts for the rich or the rich this or the rich that, and frankly I am sick of it. What about childhood euphamisms like "keep your hands to yourself" or "mind your own business" or "worry about yourself". People should not concentrate so much on what other people are getting or not. As long as they pay the same amount you do(whether it be a percentage, or nominal), then shut your mouth and worry about yourself. I also once saw a quote about how democracy may be the worst form of tyranny because a majority of the population restricting the minority seems the most legitimate. I think we should have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights to our own money. Republicans have far from won the Great Debate and if the Democrats energize the "we will give you these other people's money because you deserve it" message, then I think the country will be in trouble. Most people like that message. They feel that rich people became rich because of exploitation or inheritance and so they use it to justify taking huge ass raping amounts of money from them. Just read the quote again and realize that we need an amendment to the constitution to protect the individual's money.
I mean let's analyze the difference between communism and capitalism. In theory, Capitalism in terms of wealth allocation, is like a diamond shape, with rich at the top and poor at the bottom. Communism would be like if you cut the top off and the bottom off. So no more rich, but no more poor. This makes communism appealing to a lot of people. What is wrong with that is that it never works that way in real life, it gives people no incentive to do anything. Capitalism is an "incentive" system. If you do great things you will be personally rewarded. If you create a business with a product people want and so on. America has the most capitalism so it has the most inventions and ingenuity because we reward that stuff greatly. In communism, they made shitty products and no one had anything and it got progressively worse until it collapsed. There was no incentive to do anything. There is no consequence of becoming poor and no benefit of becoming rich. Seriously, why would you do anything except sit on your ass if the government is willing to pay for you to do that?
I think the Great Debate should come back and we should debate things like the socialist wealth redistributing practices of the Democrats and the taking care of yourself style of the Republicans. In my book taking care of yourself is not selfish. I think it is selfish to make someone give you money because your ass was too lazy to go to work, too careless to make good decisions like not having babies when you're a teenager, or dropping out of high school. It is selfish to demand and say that you deserve to be taken care of by others. As populations get bigger, the more we do wealth distribution the more inefficient it will get. We will need a level of management for every certain number of people. If we create a system like a free market with regulations, then have people taken care of from the bottom up (the individual), then there is little inefficiency because one person will be in charge of one person. The government then can regulate large companies, to make sure they don't hurt free trade or break our current system of business laws (which are quite good I think). I mean that is obviously a simplistic model but models are tools, not exact depictions. I mean we create a basic safety net of like minimal assistance for up to year, and keep the unemployment insurance program we have now. We then do the privatization of social security where we force people to put money in to their own accounts so when they are old the rest of us are assured that they have money because we're not going to just let them die in the street and we will end up putting them in a government sponsored home which will cost us all tons of money. We eliminate so much of the government besides these basic things and BAM, totally efficient society. Taxes will be like 5% of annual income and freedom for all will be huge.