LOL. If Corporations could only vote as we do, what a mess we would have on our hands. After all, the SCOTUS said they were people. That's a sticky wicket. I was thinking more like Cell phones and health care, welfare, and such that that is given to the individual citizens.

You sound like you come from a place where the government thinks and acts as though it owns everything and the rest of us are here to serve the government (That vaguely sounds like the utopian dream the progressives and socialist have for America). The government gives away what isn't theirs to give. It's called redistribution. There is no such thing as free stuff. Tax credits are incentives to change our behavior just as taxes are. To begin with, it is already our or their money. Why shouldn't someone be entitled to keep the fruit of their labor rather than share it with those unwilling to earn for themselves? I have no problem sharing with the people who can't help or do for themselves through no fault of their own. And naturally, we need a government to carry out certain functions. But we don't need a bloated bureaucracy and a bigger than necessary government that thinks all wealth flows through and from it.

No one needs to get out of this country except the un-invited. Name-calling doesn't change anyone's mind.

In the 1960s there was a slogan, "America: Love it or Leave it!" and that was countered with "America: Change it or Lose it!" Both examples of the tribalism mentality that has taken over the political party apparatus. This is why people are leaving both parties to become independent and they feel the parties no longer represent us. But the Democrats take it a step further to have more members than the Republicans by catering to Illegal Immigrants and giving free stuff away, with no slow down in sight. We need to teach more American History, with all the good and the bad, especially the Founding and the Constitution in our schools because our republic cannot survive if people are not educated in how it works.

I come from a place where (supposedly) "government [is] of the people, by the people, for the people". So every time you say "government" I think "the people".

Of course there is "free stuff". I've gotten free stuff all my life. What do you think gifts are?

Are you seriously trying to argue that their should be no taxes?

As I am currently relying on the returns of capital, I'm reaping the fruit of other peoples labor. Am I entitled to this fruit? By the laws of the land, I am; just as the titled lords were entitled to the fruits of their land.

Yes, We the People. But there are too many these days who think the people are here to serve the government. Your capital is your investment of what you earned so you are entitled. You are reaping the fruit of others labor by investing in their labor. You're not ripping them off. Both parties entered freely into a mutual agreement. I'm not arguing for no taxes. That would be impossible. Yes, of course, there is free stuff. But it still isn't free. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Don't be ridiculous! What got you feathers ruffled?