So who exactly was Adrian Rogers?

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 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 my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. 

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005 ~~~

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Very thought provoking. Some foundation in Scripture with the passage, "If a man will not work, he shall not eat" (II Thessalonians 3).

I am a proponent of a flat tax with no deductions, and a cap of 10 %. If that were to happen, people could get by on a lot less money than they do now and there would be much less of the non-sense that now goes on. Of course, we as a nation have gotten our self in such a moral morass that this is probably not possible; we celebrate sex outside of marriage, easy divorce, and other things that lead to confusion as to who or what is a family, thus further confusing how a family should be provided for. I must be a puritan because those issues really get under my skin.