If only the millennials (and all other Americans) would recognize that their wealth is being taxed away before they touch it via Social Security, unemployment compensation, Medicaid, Workman Comp, Disability premiums etc - all socialism taxes.

They should have to write checks FROM THEIR WEALTH rather than having the government sneakily force employers to fork it over before it reaches the employee, who is generating wealth through his labor(and trying to accumulate it)

This, from the hypocrite who does not want individuals to accumulate wealth or pass it on to their heirs but stores his wealth off shore in the Caribbean. We can safely ignore any advice from this over educated "elite".

Why is Pataki not running for President??? Oh right - because just over 50% of the U.S. populace is now partaking of some freebie - thus abdicating the responsibility of paying for something that they want or need. This man would be shouted down in a skinny minute lest the chumps (49%) that are underwriting all this socialism be reminded of their involuntary "contribution" to it all. The true responsibility of the government is to maintain the domestic peace /deal with crime and to protect us from invasion, maintaining our borders and a strong military. Considering how young urbanites are being encouraged to disrespect the authority of the police, aliens are being encouraged to ignore our borders and we are giving our national security away - to Iran (true home of Valerie Jarrett) in guaranteeing them nuclear capability under Obama's "Deal"...also to Russia, when Obama nixed our anti ballistic missile net extending from the Czech Republic through Poland as Putin wanted (because any trajectory from Iran has to pass over this area in order to hit the U.S.)... or selling our national security (Bill Clinton's executive order allowing the Loral Corp to test an anti ballistic missile over China...price for Bill $900,000), and more currently Hillary and Bill profiting from giving control of our uranium to Russia, using her offices to shake down countries all over the world, with foreign aid packages and red tape removals abounding as dictator after dictator forks over $500,000 to $700,000 to hear Bill deliver a speech. The Clintons and Obama busy themselves dispersing our wealth and destroying our security and distract us with talk about income inequality.
Attention Welfarians - all the section 8 housing, EIB cards, Obamaphones, Medicaid, disability and unemployment compensation will be unimportant to those of you who disappear thanks to an incoming nuke.

They have usurped the healthcare industry and a huge part of the automotive industry...maybe when they "nationalize " all the retirement accounts for the greater good, people will get outraged. Abdicating their responsibilities of defending our borders and keeping a strong national defense apparently aren't doing anything to alarm the populace. Remind me again, when was it the German people stood up to Hitler?

Like the nonexistent coverage of the terrorist attack at Ben Ghazi by the major news networks before a presidential election? Like that kind of silence?

Waffler - have been reading your comments for some time now and it is very clear that you, like our dear leader, have never built anything. You have never known the joy nor the agony of putting in 80 hour weeks and paying employees to work half as hard, then being socked with the socialism of workman comp premiums, soc security payments, medicare medicaid, unemployment compensation and disability percentages. Every creature on the planet was intended to be weaned from the teat at some point. The statists have fooled you into thinking that it is otherwise. Good luck when the teat runs dry - you might actually enjoy being a productive adult.

Exactly right - the "servants" have becme the masters thanks to our public sector unions. Are teachers professionals or not? What other professional group - doctor, lawyer , architect uses a union? Are teachers doing blue collar dangerous work like miners? Can the customer go to a competitor if the union forces the prices too high? The customer can go to an alternative coal mine if the union demands force the prices to skyrocket. The taxpayers are a captive market since they cannot opt out of paying their propertytaxes, or directing the funds to private or parochal schools.

Thank you Waffler once again for the Communist point of view. Aside from the obvious joy of the politicians at confiscating the wealth ( that may have taken a family generations to build ) and redistributing it to people who will piss it away because they have no appreciation or understanding of the sacrifice and discipline required in our socialist society to amass assets.- there is one other benefit that the purveyors of our soft tyranny derive. They teach our populace not to depend on family but to rely on government. We have via our public school system achieved a nearly 100% rate of economic imbeciles who are conversant on gay marriage, abortion , legalization of pot, but know not one fact regarding how our government has presumed ownership of 30 - 40 % of their earnings. You are a perfect example of this