Changes We Can Truly Believe In - 2010

The government is seriously contemplating several new taxes that allow them to spend on new government programs. Along with raising “sin” taxes on cigarettes, there’s talk about a “sin” tax on soda to help fight obesity, and alcohol to help fight alcoholism. And Congress is starting to make noises about a VAT (value added tax); a national tax on everything we buy i.e., another income tax. Americans are waiting in vain for Congress to start reversing this trend, to start making serious noises about curbing spending and giving us some tax relief. How does creating new sin taxes, or punishment taxes, and raising those already in place make good sense? As soon as the higher taxes succeed in producing the desired behavior, wouldn’t the government receive less revenue? Or do they want more people to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat themselves into an early grave just to raise more revenue? The problem is this; they never cut spending, thereby, creating a perpetual, cloying need for more revenues. In turn, government moves to come up with even more clever ways to “tax and fool” us into believing we are helping to divert yet another dire crises (obesity, global warming, 47 million people without health insurance, ad nauseum). When the government can’t raise revenue in added taxes, they resort to the printer.

While the government can mint and print more money, they cannot create wealth. Wealth can be described as ownership of material things such as property and other items like stocks and bonds that are relatively scarce and have a high social value. Money, in and of itself, is not wealth unless it is invested or used to create things of value. All the printed money in the world is useless if you can’t buy anything with it. Unless money is generated through the production of goods and services, it is not useful to the maintenance of a free market capitalist society. In the same way, whenever money, earned by labor, is confiscated by the government and redistributed to non-productive government programs, the free flow of wealth is interrupted and society is the worse for it. Bailing out failing companies with tax-payer money is not a fruitful use of money.

A free society cannot long exist while the government incrementally and systematically schemes ways to confiscate more and more the wages of working people and redistribe that money to non-producing government programs. The only return on government spending of that hard-earned money is a growing sector of society dependent upon those who work, being looted by an armed government and forced to forfeit an ever-increasing portion of their wages to the nurturing and support of free-loaders and moochers. We are no longer working to support our own families, businesses, and communities; we are working to support an increasingly dependent society. We are like sheeple who placidly sacrifice self to the “greater good of society” while ignoring our own responsibility to first serve ourselves and then others. Socialists and communists view our attitude as self-serving and selfish when, in reality, it is the essence of the Judeo-Christian work ethic. It is the work ethic that made this country the most economically powerful country on the planet.

When people start to believe that it is better to work for the “world” and for “society” instead of for themselves, they surrender to a kind of death sentence of drudgery, boredom, and constant service to those who demand more and more. Freedoms are sacrificed for the “greater good of society,” and once a freedom is lost, it can only be regained by blood, sweat, and tears.

 Now is the time to take a good look at where we are as Americans and to decide if this is what we truly desire for our ourselves, and our children and grandchildren. Look long and hard at the options and when you enter the voting booths all across the nation, vote your conscience, not for what seems expedient. Think about the future of this country and whether we want ourr children to work under the yoke of communism where even the freedom to think is no longer “good for society.” Think about whether we want them to be free to use their minds to invent new things, to start their own businesses, to pursue their own studies; or do we want them to live out their lives for the “greater good of society”? Should we leave future generations with no choice of medical treatment and force them to accept sub-quality treatment from a totally corrupt and ineffective government system? Think about whether we want our children and their children to be forced to ride public transportation if they want to go to the store (if they will even have stores like we have today with their mind-boggling assortments of goodies and necessities).

The stories of Russian women coming to America during the cold war era, entering American grocery stores, and crying are true. They could not believe that such places could exist in the world. I hope our future generations will not have to go through that kind of experience.  

The year 2010 is our time; the time to derail the bullet-train that is rapidly leading us further into Communism. Don’t forget, the ruling classes in all communist countries believe in democracy for themselves, but autocracy for the masses. Consider how this has been going on for some time now. Congressmen wouldn’t think of educating their children in public schools or submitting themselves to a public health care system, but it’s good enough for the masses.

At the voting booths you and I can end the punishing “sin” taxes and out-of-control spending. Do we have as much moxy as the International Olympic Committee. Can we just say “NO” to Obama? We can shock the world by showing the true grit of the American people. Vote for those who will get the government out of our health insurance and work to end the corruption and inefficiencies in the existing government programs, especially public education and Medicaid and Medicare. Now those are “changes” we can truly believe in.