Truisms...Trudeau's Reminder?

Judging by the overheard conversations on the patio during events, it's perhaps time someone "our age" reminds T2--unaffectionate abbreviation for Justin Trudeau, our nation's prime minister--of some of this stuff:

Rich pay no tax?  Wasn't it only the poor who paid none?

The result of conversations that ensued after learning four in 10 Canadians pay no taxes at all.

Then someone added that 45% of Americans pay no tax!

So:  truisms follow:


These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. 

So the middle class pays, and pays, and pays, and pays...because that's the largest group...
Very clever, governments!

Are you listening, T2? 
Stone-deaf silence.