Freedom isn't free?

[world wide wally]

Why is that saying only applies when we're talking about the lives of men and women fighting in wars, but when we ask the wealthiest Americans to pay another nickel in taxes... suddenly freedom is supposed to be free?

[digonswine]

1. Right. They don't mean a word of it.

[SDjack]

2. The 1%, with rare exceptions, don't want to pay enough taxes and will

not risk themselves in the wars that they need to maintain their businesses.

[surrealAmerican]

3. Welcome to DU.

You might want to check your autocorrect. It took me a while to figure this post out because of the "apples".

[world wide wally]

4. Thanks! Long time reader...first time poster

[CheapShotArtist]

5. This is kinda off-topic, but what I find funny is that

Republicans claim to be for everybody's "freedom", but when it comes to their economic policies, they take away the spending freedom of about 99% of Americans in the process of giving more to the top 1%. Also I want to know how they can advocate "liberty" and "freedom" when they enact laws that impose religious principles on everybody, restrict people's right to vote, restrict the right of gays to marry, and restrict women's right to choose. When you do the math, the numbers don't seem to add up IMO.