Quote of the Week: 3rd Week of April '06

This weeks quote comes from Walter E. WIlliams. He is a syndicated columnist at Townhall.com. In this article he is asking, 'Is there a federal deficit?' The average taxpayer, depending on the state in which he lives, works from Jan. 1 to May 3 to pay federal, state and local taxes. That means someone else decides how four months' worth of the fruits of the average taxpayer's labor will be spent. The taxpayer is forcibly used to serve the purposes of others -- whether it's farm or business handouts, food stamps or other government programs where the earnings of one American are taken and given to another.