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A few people have been attributed this quote. Duckle search link here. (duckduckgo.com) I clicked on the 2nd link because that was who I thought said it. After reading that link I remembered I thought Alexander Fraiser Tytler said it. Who the Hell knows.

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He should have said "politicians" instead of "people".

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He meant people.

People almost always vote "yes" for taxes on other people and "no" for taxes on themselves. Why do you think "tax the rich" is so popular? It's because less than 50% of the country are rich. That means they could never vote down a tax on themselves. As long as the proposals are to tax some minority, it will pass with impunity. This is how totalitarians operate in a democracy, and those two terms aren't contradictory … they are synonymous. That's why ballot measures to increase property taxes always pass in states with >50% renters.

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Then those renters get bent out of shape because their rent goes up, unable to connect the dots that their rent goes toward the property taxes they just voted to increase.

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Basically everyone's a retard, yeah. No wonder the elite are so cocky. It's a war of social-engineering amongst two opposing forces. In this case, vaxers-vs-anti-vaxers. You could probably use some type of rudimentary cost-benefit-analysis to find the best spot to live in, in the near future, while this whole shit-show plays out— using this insight alone.

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I read his writings and understand his meanings. I was making an ironic point that people thought they were voting to give themselves money and yet the only ones profiting from that are the politicians. The money for an inner city work program never seems to make it to the actual program.

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so alexis de tocqueville didnt say this?