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2010
Soap Box Archives Cowboy Logic And Economics Most of you probably already know that the Bush tax cuts expire the first of the year, and that’s bad. And no, I’m not talking about a bunch of fat cats not having the money to buy another condo or take a vacation on the French Rivera. That’s a common problem that a lot of people make when they believe that old Democrat mantra, “tax cut for the rich.” They think that people who make a lot of money just don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Actually, a small percentage of the big money earners pay the lion’s share of the taxes collected by our government, and at the same time keep the wheels of commerce turning by their investments of the money they save on taxes and create jobs by starting new businesses. When the government gets a dollar, it takes seventy cents of it to sustain the bureaucracies it’s drained through and only thirty cents is available to finance the military, build interstates and whatever else the government spends it on. Government spending is inefficient and wasteful, not even counting what the greedy Congressmen and Senators can suck out of our taxes for earmarks and downright foolishness. So what are taxes? Simple, you take money away from some people and give it to other people. You don’t create more wealth or more money, you just transfer money from one person to another. It’s known as redistribution of wealth and that is one of the prime intentions of the Obama Administration. They’ve as much as said so. I believe in charity, I believe in welfare for those who deserve it, but when government entitlements are passed out just to buy votes for dishonest politicians, when it encourages four generations of unwed teenage mothers and deadbeat dads it ceases to be welfare and turns into graft. Barack Obama does not like being called a socialist, but that’s what he is. Actions speak louder than words and his actions prove he is a socialist. He believes that every aspect of American life should be controlled by a monolithic central government and believes that the wealth of America should be evenly distributed to every one. “To each according to his needs and from each according to his ability.” Do you know who said that? If you don’t, you need to find out. It seems that Obama and the Democrats are determined to turn America into a quasi third world nation with the unproductive reaping just as much harvest as the productive ones. When you begin redistribution of wealth, you open a Pandora’s box of fiscal ruin because you take money out of the hands of people who would put it back into the economy. How much entitlement money ends up in the pockets of drug dealers, numbers runners and liquor store owners? How many crack habits are your tax dollars supporting? How many children fathered by slugs who have no intention of taking care of them are your tax dollars taking care of? The point is that entitlements beget entitlements and with a socialist in the White House and a bunch of gutless, spineless, greedy vampires in Congress, there will be no end to it. Now here’s a little common sense. Suppose a farmer has a bushel of corn and you tax him half a bushel and give the half bushel to somebody who doesn’t work, who just eats the corn and comes back for more the next day. Now suppose you left it with the farmer; he’d plant it and turn it into many bushels of corn. He’d sell it to the grist mill and make a profit, who would grind it and sell it to the grocery wholesaler and make a profit, the grocery wholesaler would run it through a processing and packaging plant which employs hundreds of workers, they would draw a paycheck and the wholesaler would hire a truck to take his product to market, the trucking company would make profit, the wholesaler would make a profit when he sold it to the grocery store, the grocery store would sell it to the consumer and make a profit while employing workers to wait on their customers. In the meantime the guy who just ate the corn, well you know what happens to that. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country. God Bless America Charlie Daniels |