"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich
and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who
toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government,
every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of
government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want
taxes to be less, that the people may have more." ~ Calvin Coolidge
With endless trillion-dollar spending schemes in mind the
President and Congress will have their minions out trolling for popular support
for increased taxes on the rich and their corporations and we would all do well
to heed the words of our 30th President. Corporations and the
richest of the rich do not pay taxes they pass the along to their customers,
tenants, and trading partners resulting in a higher cost of living.
When the dubious pipeline incident occurred recently did you
notice how the companies involved took the hit? Oh, so you didn’t go fill up your
tank, just in case.
A lot of folks I know like to complain about price gouging
by Big Pharma, but they say nothing about it as long as Medicare, Medicaid, or
their insurance is footing the bill. They only become concerned when the money
comes directly from their pocket. Where does Medicare and the others get the
money to pay for drugs—from you!
It is well past the time when the people in this country
need to be concerned about the real costs of “free” healthcare, government
subsidies, student loan forgiveness, and unlimited immigration of non-taxpaying
dependents. Cities like Detroit, Baltimore, and Los Angeles are not
anomalies—they are the destination for the entire country.
If the government were truly to cut spending, it would
financially impact almost every American and it would hurt. No one would be
happy about it. But I wonder who is going to be dancing in the street when it
collapses. Our debt payments alone are larger than the entire gross production
of the economy.
It is a problem that I believe can be solved, but not by
ignoring it or making it worse by foolishly adding to it in the name of taxing
the rich.
I’m unsure how many of you have fasted on purpose. Contrary
to what the supermarket tells you, it’s a healthy thing to do. Yes, you get hungry,
your stomach might complain, you might get a headache—but you live through it
and feel better min the long run. Reducing government spending would be like
that. It would be uncomfortable to say the least, but good it the long run. You
want to do something for the “good of all” join the fight against big
government before it kills us.
Maranatha
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