It takes serious cojones for a guy who consistently pushes for higher spending and higher taxes to ask people who work hard for their money to stop being so greedy when he demands more.

When is enough enough? When the person working for the money decides he or she has made enough money. It’s not the government’s money. It’s not my money. It’s belongs to the people who worked to earn it.

Doug Powers puts it perfectly:

Here’s Sanders — a train robber with the audacity to accuse the passengers of “making out like bandits” simply for hanging on to what he couldn’t manage to steal.

Yep.

The government does nothing more than redistribute wealth. Think about it. There are no money trees on Capitol Hill. Unemployment benefits? Welfare? Any government spending whatsoever? All of it involves taking money from one individual (the taxpayer) to give it to another individual (the recipient).

But the difference between welfare spending and defense spending is the latter is a legitimate function of the federal government. The national defense is explicitly required by the United States Constitution. Tax dollars being spent for that purchase is a legitimate activity.

But the government doesn’t have blanket authority to do whatever it so pleases. It’s not entitled to as much money as it wants. Not every dollar I have belongs to the federal government. My not wanting to forfeit more of my money for the federal government to spend on illegitimate wealth redistribution isn’t greedy.

A $1.3 trillion deficit. A $14 trillion national debt. More than $2 trillion collected in tax revenue each and every year. The most fiscally irresponsible Congress in American history. And a United States Senator has the audacity to accuse American taxpayers of being greedy for not shipping more of their money to Washington.