“I can’t tell you how to get rich quickly,” the Hungarian stockbroker trader Andre’ Kostolany liked to say. “I can only tell you how to get poor quickly: By trying to get rich quickly.”
The $1.8 trillion American Families Plan introduced in broad strokes last week is more accurately called the plan to make the middle class dependent on government from cradle to grave. The goal is to expand the entitlement state to make Americans rely on government and the political class for everything they don’t already provide.
