There are no end of things to which taxpayers can be convinced they have a “right”. Soon, a country finds itself unable to stem the outflows necessary to give all its people all their “rights”. Making it worse, people from other countries want to have those same “rights”, too. So, they come thronging in, welcome because of the cheap labor they provide to those who actually produce the things necessary for the nation. The downside is that they are easily organized to demand their “rights”, too. From the day the leave their country, many look at themselves as an invading army, and act accordingly as soon as they reach critical mass in the more modern “enemy country”, whose inhabitants they would like to exterminate and work to do so.
Every person involved in every area of tax-supported spending is promised pensions, benefits, and raises. Taxpayers are on the hook. As long as taxpayers are free to automate, thus reducing costs, the country can survive by taxing those savings.
During this process of “giving people their rights”, two basic groups appear. There are those with government-guaranteed jobs and those without. Those in the latter group are called the “private sector”. Some of those in the “private sector” work hard to get government funding for their endeavors.
It is, they feel, their “right”.
