Posted by
ArchCon on Monday, September 22, 2008 10:04:19 AM
Joe Biden recently called paying more taxes "Patriotic."
Barrack Obama (in the Bill O'Reilly interview) called it just "being neighborly."
Wow... how can I not want to be Neighborly and Patriotic? I must admit, that sounds so much better than "coersion" and "robbery".
But, the fact is that paying taxes is not voluntary, so it can be neither patriotic nor neighborly. One cannot be forced into being patriotic. One cannot be coerced into being neighborly.
And not wanting to pay more taxes is not mean-spirited or unpatriotic -- it is simply smart. Time and time again, history proves that reducing the tax rate increases the federal revenues -- but this does not seem to stop the "Patriotic Liberals" from trying to convince me otherwise. With a smile, they tell me it is somehow better for my country -- and my neighborhoods -- if they get more of my money.
Oh, I get it -- that's what a community organizer is! Someone who takes my money and tries to convince me I should feel good about it.
In the Bill O'Reilly interview, Mr. O'Reilly pointed out to Mr. Obama that the revenues increased during the George Bush tax cuts -- but that didn't change Obama's position, or dim his megawatt smile. "You can afford it," he told Bill O'Reilly. So... this isn't about raising revenue? It isn't about coming up with more money for more programs? It is just about taking from those who can afford it?
The fact is that we can't afford it -- none of us can. Not Bill O'Reilly, not you, and not me.
I wouldn't mind so much if the government (ANY government!) would prove that they spend money wisely. But the fact is that if we want to help the poor, giving money to the government has proved to be a VERY bad way of achieving it.
A government agency cannot manage money. Period. They never have, and they never will. Any government agency will simply seek to expand its budget, and justify its existence.
I can offer a thousand examples of this, but let me give you one that anyone can understand:
The Pennsylvania State Store.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has a monopoly on liquor. You cannot buy alcohol (beer excluded) from anyone but them. Their prices are not better than Maryland, which has privatized it’s liquor distribution, and yet every year the PLCB manages to lose money, requiring increased budgets.
Huh? Al Capone made an empire with control of liquor in just Chicago, but the government agency that owns a full state’s monopoly loses money. How is that even possible? Joe Kennedy must be turning over in his grave...
Listen... Giving liberal Democrats more money to fix the social problems is not patriotic. It is not neghborly.
It is throwing good money after bad.
And that's just bad business.
Don't believe me? Just ask AIG....