It was Democrats who gave the needy property rights, sometimes called entitlements, via taxation, rent control, and other redistributive methods in the incomes of taxpayers.

The needy and their needs expanded rapidly, necessitating further violations of Constitutionally protected property rights.  Today an American making $300,000 annually pays one-third of his income in federal income taxes on top of which are added state income taxes, sales and excise taxes, taxes on services such as electricity and telephone, and property taxes to pay for the education of other peoples' children.  Today a middle class American, the few who still remain, faces a larger claim on his income than Feudal lords had on the labor of serfs.  Until the Reagan tax rate reduction, rich Americans had a smaller claim to the products of their labor than 19th century slaves on a cotton plantation.  On many occasions I have pointed out in an April 15 column that Americans think of themselves as free, but in fact have no more claim to their labor than Feudal serfs and 19th century slaves.  As the historical definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor, free people no longer exist in any country with an income tax.