But this one has nothing to do with Obama or McCain. Or about the fairly entertaining debate between Joe Biden and Tina Fey. But here's the question - what's wrong with tax and spend as a governmental philosophy?
Now let's make things very clear - I don't like paying taxes. I don't like giving my money away to the government, event though there are things that I do want the government to pay for, like armor for soldiers, airplanes with missiles to defend my house, and teacher salaries. Not to mention garbage pickup. That's kind of a big one for me. And yes, my taxes do pay for garbage pick up in Charlotte. Not my federal taxes, but taxes nonetheless.
But I hear a lot of people griping about "tax and spend Democrats" while claiming to be fiscally conservative. Now my question is - what is more fiscally irresponsible, taxing and spending, or just spending? Our government seems hell-bent on spending trillions of dollars every year, and the last time I checked, that money has to come from somewhere. So either we pay for it in taxes, or we borrow it from other countries and pay for it in taxes later.
So while I'd prefer to pay less in taxes, and certainly agree that there are a lot of government programs that could be cut (and yes, I believe the NEA is one of them, regardless of the fact that I'm an artist), I realize that our government spends money like a 17-year-old with daddy's gold card, and I'd rather have someone say "The government is going to do these things, and here is how I'm going to tax you to pay for it." At least that way I could decide if I liked those things, was willing to pay for those things, and vote accordingly. But everybody now is giving me bs lines about how they're going to cut my taxes while spending a couple trillion bucks on economic rescue plans and war. And I don't believe any of it. You can't continue to cut taxes and increase government spending, the math just doesn't work.
So either tax and spend, or don't spend. But don't not tax and keep spending, that's just bad math.
Monday, October 06, 2008
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My 11 year old son figured out last night that in order for the government to bail out the banks with a $700 billion loan from tax payers, that comes out to $2100 per person IF you count every man, woman and child in America. And that's on top of what we are already paying.
If HE gets it, why doesn't everyone?
-DrC
PS. We have borrowed heavily from China. What happens if they have a margin call? Just a thought...
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You're right Falstaff, however, way too many of us just don't get it. I don't know why. We're idiots I guess.
Oh, let us not forget that we will NOT lose all of the 700 Bil. In fact, we may make a profit.
See you Thursday night.
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