President Obama recently admitted, “I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?'”
No, but he thinks we are.
Government spending on social issues has escalated recklessly out of control. The clever use of the euphemism “paying for tax cuts” is used in lieu of describing what is actually necessary, a massive reduction in government spending.
It’s a well-established technique. Repackage the unpleasant truth in flowery language to win support from gullible people.
Nobody is against or “anti” anything anymore.
When anti-abortion activists declared their movement to be “pro-life”, those opposed could not say they were “pro-abortion.” So they are “pro-choice”, or cast their position as in favor of a woman’s reproductive rights.
How can anyone oppose choice? Well, the baby might object.
Of course, a man’s reproductive rights begin and end at intercourse. Once the woman is pregnant, it is only her choice whether or not to have the baby.
If she chooses to have the baby, she can have the courts order the biological father to financially support her child even if she refuses to marry the father (in the rare case he’s willing.)
Courts have even ruled that if a man is not the father but pays support for an extended period of time due to a mistake, he isn’t off the hook until the child reaches eighteen.
Most often, his interest in the child ended with his sperm donation, and the “deadbeat” Dad will do anything to shirk his responsibility. That why biological parenthood and marriage can form a winning combination. If the unwed mother wishes to abort the child, the father cannot prevent her. If she insists on raising the baby, he’s responsible for child support. Which person could be more accurately described as having been “screwed” by modern society for having unprotected premarital sex, the male or the female?
Let’s return to this idea of “paying for tax cuts” — the joke is to suggest the government pays for anything. It doesn’t create anything. It just takes away.
Yet we the people are the government.
We’ve only got ourselves to blame for electing clowns like Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or Olympia Snowe. The Washington elitist crowd from a mindset that our collective personal income is actually the total of government revenue.
We are allowed to keep a portion they generously distribute according to our needs (and voting habits.)
Now I can help vote Saxby Chambliss out of office if his votes don’t reflect my wishes. But I find myself powerless to do anything about Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi. I am at the mercy of the citizenry of Nevada and California, respectively.
The government must “pay” for tax cuts by a reduction in government spending — specifically at the federal level.
It’s quite simple. There is a certain amount of money the government is entitled to request from its taxpayers in order to ” establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility” through fair taxation, responsibilities prescribed by the preamble of the Constitution.
In return, we’re supposed to get fair representation. Today for our Congress, we have a circus comprised only of clown acts.
Tax money is specifically intended to “provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty” of its citizens.
Instead, what the government does today is create domestic discord and economic strife through the use of “progressive” tax rates to ensure fair redistribution of our collective economic wealth, pitting the rest of us against “the evil rich.”
They employ incomprehensible tax laws that President Obama himself could not begin to explain. That’s why he hired a boatload of new IRS auditors.
There is also the application of antiquated social laws (the drug wars) to manipulate the masses and raise government revenue by punishing selected private citizens for otherwise victimless crimes.
Tough problem; simple solution: cut spending AND raise taxes.
Support a fair, flat, or consumption tax.
Legalize and tax marijuana. End the stupid, expensive and futile war on drugs. The only ones currently turning a profit are the criminals.
Reform these massive social programs so that seniors depending on them can rest assured. Protect their retirement. The rest of us who are still willing to work can create our own safety net by acquiring wealth and then keeping it to dispense as we choose.
The deadbeats that don’t want to work can depend on social programs, which will explode with income once the government stops stealing most of what we earn. Allow the American individual decide how to spend his income.
If we need to raise revenue in addition to spending cuts, end the senseless assault on victimless crime. Rather than raising money by giving otherwise law abiding citizens a criminal record for using illegal drugs versus legal ones such as alcohol, tobacco or prescription drugs.
Just tax the dope smoker and leave him alone.
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