This is a very deceptive figure because the tax burden rests so heavily on high-achievers. And that s just a partial list. But every time the government spends one penny of taxpayer s money the government is saying that it s needs for that particular penny are greater than the needs of the person who earned it. That brings us back to Bill Clinton. Federal law says that the taxpayers must foot the bill for an office and all furnishings for a former president until the day he dies.
All former presidents have such offices.
Seventy people who could use that money for something else and far more important to them. Seventy people who will work about one-fifth of every year just to support Clinton in his new luxury offices in Manhattan. I really like something that a Democratic State Senator in Virginia said earlier this week. Her name is Janet Howell, and she said that Insecure governments usually impose symbols of patriotism on their youth. Totalitarian governments always impose symbols of patriotism on their youth.