Posted by
Mick O. on Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:46:58 AM
The popular saying is that "money won't make you happy." or "Money is not the answer." BULL! If these sayings are true, then why is it that Democrats keep going after ours? Or when there's a lawsuit settlement, it's always about big dollars? Why not just sue for the principal? HUH?
Dick Morris has a piece today about the Democrats plan to take more of our money if Hillary is elected President and they take over both houses of congress. I don't think that is going to happen, but the Republicans need to stand up and tell it like it is. Here's the truth.
Whenever government identifies a problem (or "crisis" as the drive-by media likes to name them!) what's the solution? "We need more money to fix this." When they get more money what's the mantra? "It's not enough money to fix this." When we're in Iraq and the President vetoes a bill what's the mantra? "We're spending billions in Iraq that we could be spending here in this country."
No let me ask you this. When has any amount of money solved any one of our number of problems in this country? NAME ONE! And with the billions of dollars we are throwing at things like education, the war on drugs, national health care (medicare or medicaid) how much is enough? No matter what we spend, liberals say it's not enough.
So what happens when we hit 100% taxation? Once we hit that we have socialism. The government will have to decide how much to give back to us to live. And will these problems be solved then? NO. And who will get the blame? It sure won't be the Democrats.
My point is this; if 50% tax rate isn't enough and 100% tax rate won't solve the problems, then get off the tax increase bandwagon and think of something else. GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION. The founders knew this which is why they made it so difficult to do anything.
Nancy Giles was on Sunday Morning and said something to the effect that just because over 50% of people in a poll said we should pass the SCHIPS program and we should get out of Iraq; why aren't the politicians listening? Well, over 50% of people thought slavery should be legal back in the 1800's, but did that make it right? NO! It's not how our country runs... That's called MOB RULE when you let the majority have its way. What we have is a representative republic... on purpose. So that heavily populated places like Los Angeles and New York aren't making decisions for the rest of the country!
So back to the tax issue. Why do politicians promise to take money from one group of people and give it to another group? To buy votes. Has that ever worked or make problems go away? No!!! So why do the sheep keep buying it? Because they are gullible. Remember the old saying attributed to PT Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute?"