2008 Soap Box Archives

Lies and Fallacies

I know it sounds good when some politician says something about raising the taxes on the people who make more than a certain amount of money a year. A lot of people think, "Yeah, go get them fat cats, make 'em pay through the nose."

The problem is that raising taxes never brings prosperity and there is a very simple reason why.

When government takes money out of the private sector they, in essence, take it out of everyone's pockets except the people who are on government entitlements. Raising taxes will never create or even promote good financial times.

Every dollar government takes out of the private sector has somewhere around 28 to 30 cents drained off by the bureaucracy, then count on the greed of the House and Senate to allocate several more cents for their earmarks and pet pork projects, and by the time the poor dollar emerges to actually do any good it looks like a skeleton.

A dollar is a dollar in the real world, people make it, people spend it and it is released into society in full strength to make the economy grow and prosper.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden also want to raise corporate tax rates, which is completely asinine. When you raise corporate taxes, all you do is hurt the consumer, because corporations will just raise their prices to adjust for the tax hike. The lower the corporate tax rate, the lower the cost to the consumer. It's as simple as that.

The problems America is facing now have nothing to do with tax cuts for the rich or corporations. It has to do with a bloated government which is completely out of control and not taking care of the business of the nation they're supposed to be looking out for.

We should all know that the current financial crisis hasn't been caused because taxes are too low, but rather because careless, power hungry politicians tried to buy votes by forcing banks to make loans they had no chance of recovering.

Let me ask you a question, do you trust the politicians in Washington? Can you believe anything they tell you? Do you think they hide provisions in the bills they pass, provisions that don't benefit you and your family?

Well, let me tell you this. They're lying to you when they tell you that tax increases on anybody are going to improve the economy.

How do I know that? Through personal experience. Every extra dollar I have to pay in taxes is a dollar I can't pass on to my employees for them to spend in the open market buying cars and milk and clothes and making mortgage payments on their houses.

And by the way, my people make the payments on their houses. They are not part of this current housing problem. That's called personal responsibility, something that is in short supply in America.

No matter who wins the election, America cannot go on like this with a bunch of Washington prima donnas spending like a gaggle of drunk party animals, lying to the people and hiding their dirty little billion dollar earmarks in the voluminous stacks of paper they call bills. It's fitting that they're called bills, because bills have to be paid, which is exactly what the taxpayer does, and the bills just keep piling up.

They're dirty, they're liars, they're irresponsible, they're untrustworthy, they're power hungry, they're greedy, they're vindictive, and they're willing to destroy good and innocent people just to achieve their selfish goals.

When they take their oaths they should not promise to represent the people who sent them there, but pledge allegiance to their own greedy interests and the good of their party.

They'd be telling the truth at least one time.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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