I find it amazing that no one and most especially our non-representing representatives want to ever talk about cutting spending. I don't mean cutting the rate at which spending will increase, but genuinely cutting the amount of spending they're doing... meaning that they spend less this year than they did last year.
This entire concept seems to be completely lost on our leaders and even largely on our population. No one wants them to cut such programs as social security, or medicaid or the like.
I believe the reason for this is that too many people view that money as money being given to them by someone else. They think if it as money the government simply has to give. They need to consider that they get that money from us.
It is important that we realize that we never get back as much money from them as they take from us. Rather than letting them take ever larger amounts of money from us we should be telling them to stop taking so much. If we keep the money in our pockets we will not be out anything. We forget that social security is only the government taking our money now with the promise of a regular paycheck in our later years in life, if we live that long. If we don't then they get to keep it.
If we keep all that money in the first place we can still invest it for our retirement, but the truly great thing is that if we die before we get there our families get the money. We can also be sure that money isn't being raided by our leaders for other things than what it was designed for.
Our leaders love using the term that social security is broken and needs to be fixed. The reality is that it's being robbed by THEM. There's no money there because our non-representing representatives view it as their personal slush fund for other things with the idea they'll pay it back later.
You might be wondering how they'll pay it back.... well with yet more of OUR money. This is the way the government works and this is what needs to be stopped.
Consider for a moment, if you make $50,000 per year the government by their time they're done with social security, unemployment, medicaid, medicare, federal income tax, state income tax, sales tax, gas tax, alcohol tax, and tax on everything else they can think of gets over 50% of your check. That means you give them about $25,000 a year.
Now imagine you get to keep all that money. this means in just 10 short years you have 1/4 of a million dollars more to work with than if the government weren't being so helpful. Do you really think you'd have a hard time preparing for retirement? Do you think you wouldn't be able to put your kid through private school with a far better education than what the public schools have to offer?
Consider over 30 years that you have $750,000 more. Don't forget you've been getting by on $25,000/year they've been letting you keep that means all that extra money can go for anything. Also don't forget that even with the little you've been able to keep of what you actually make most people are able to save quite a nice retirement and they do because they know just how poor social secuirty is.
It is time we wake up and realize the government isn't doing us any favors!
You will probably say, but if they stop social security I'll lose out on all that money. My response, "Why?" They still owe you that money according to the law. They have set or at least were supposed to set that money aside for your retirement so let them simply pay you back what you paid in plus interest?
Imagine you now have more say over the quality of teachers you have teaching your children.
I don't see much of a downside here. You've bought the lie that you need the government to take care of you when you get old and you need them to help you educate your kids. Do you really think people won't want to teach if the government isn't the one paying their pay check. If they only teach because of who pays them then their motivation is in the wrong place and I say we don't need those people any more.
It is time for a tax revolt in this country.
Demand your leaders not only stop all the spending but start cutting back.
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