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To: ScatterShot who wrote (417441)9/5/2011 9:17:50 PM
From: Follies  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Thanks Scatter for the attribution or lack of. I had always thought the quotation was from Karl Marx.

But here is something very similar attributed to Ben Franklin...

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu

Regardless of who said it, does it ring true? Will the republic end, democracy fail, because people vote more money than the government can collect?