I agree with the OP on this one,
I live in a welfare state but I highly admire the US for not being one.
Where I come from it's not the rich that end up paying for the welfare state, it's the young single talented people with ambition that get numb struck by taxes leaving them with only 43 percent of what they earn in there hands.
And people end up being surprised that kids stay so long with their parents these days :).
How can you possibly misspell QWERTY? It's spelled correctly on the damn keyboard.







