Everyone always tries to focus on the "fairness" of taxing those who have more than we do, rather than asking who does it really help? How will taxing anyone create more jobs? That is money taken out of the economy from people who produce and given to those who do nothing. Why would we ever say that this creates jobs. All it does is find more places to give our money too. Invariably most of the money goes to those who are producing nothing. If you give money to those who produce nothing you will add nothing to the economy.
Why is it that anyone would think that making something harder on someone else in anyway improves their lot in life? If you ask me everyone would be screaming about their taxes. It should not be that some people are screaming that others are not taxed enough but that we are all taxed TOO MUCH!!
It is the genius of marketing, publicity, or as they used to call it propaganda that we have allowed ourselves to be misdirected away from the fact that our taxes are too high and start looking and considering that other people's taxes aren't high enough.
Should we pay taxes? I have little doubt that our responsibility regarding our nation involves paying taxes, but do we really need to be taxed for all the absurd spending programs we have going right now. Are we really not taxed enough?
How does taking money out of my pocket and putting it in the government's pocket in any way create jobs? Anyone with half a brain can clearly see that Jobs are created with money and with money that is invested? Giving money to the government is not and never was meant to be considered an investment.
Even now the propagandists are busy promoting through the use of cleverer wording that the government is investing when they are spending our money. They are not investing in businesses and it is not their job to be involved with businesses, unless you accept a socialist form of government as being a correct way to govern, but that should never be in our nation since it stands in direct contrast to the constitution.
It is also quite clear that any organization as large as the government and as unwieldy due to all its regulations and voting process can never act fast enough nor local enough to affect the changes needed in a business to remain competitive.
I understand the need for government regarding something like an army or possibly even roads, or maybe the mammoth job of space travel and exploration, but the U.S. government was never commissioned to take care of our health care, retirement, sickness and the like. The amount of things they've found to spend our money on in the name of charity and caring is almost unbelievable. Why we have come to accept that it is our duty to make sure that every person has these things or we are evil is hard to explain and even harder to understand.
For some unknown reason no one wants to confront the constitutionality of these things. It has become so accepted that these things just are that no one is willing to attack them anymore. Social Security is not really a constitutional right. It is not even constitutional and should never have been enacted. The fact that it has been enacted does not make it mny more constitutional. Simply passing some law does not make it constitutional. The fact that it does not seem to have ever been challenged is not surprising. Everyone loves a "free ride", even when it is not really free. They've managed to make it seem as though it was free but it is not!
It is a fearful beast we have created, and now it turns out to be that it is only the first among many such programs. As they say, the camel has his nose in the tent! Can it be long before the whole camel is inside? The American people have become very short sighted. They do not seem to realize that once programs like these are put in place there is almost a zero chance that they will ever be removed. Wilson depended on this as does Obama, the democrats and the republicans who didn't do enough to get the American people aroused to what was going on. Now we are at the point that these things are going to break the United States financially and quite possibly as a world power, which seems to have been their goal all along.
A bit part of the problem is that we don't understand the role of government as laid down in our constitution. The role of government is not to create jobs. It is to protect the American people. Our leaders feel the military is one thing that really doesn't need funding when in reality that is the primary purpose of government, not welfare, not health care, not Medicaid, or Medicare, not testing shrimps on treadmills, and certainly not providing Americans with jobs.
It is counter intuitive to anyone with common sense. The government doesn’t create private sector jobs. This is obvious or they would be called government jobs. It is equally obvious that if everyone worked for the government the government would be paying it's own taxes which is circular. The government may print money but they don't produce revenue, they only take it from others. If everyone were working for the government than no one would be paying any real taxes, how long could that last.
If even 50% of the people were working for the government then the other 50% would have to give up half their income to support the other 50% in which case everyone would be living with 50% of what they could have. This means they certainly wouldn't feel free to make more as half of everything extra they made would just be taken and given to someone else.
It is for this reason that I say taxes don't create jobs. The government would have us believe otherwise and sadly there are too many people out there that think the government has its own money as though it just comes out of thin air. It comes out of our pockets!
Even the redistribution of that wealth is not fair or equitable. If it were than congress would make nothing more than welfare recipients. After all they are living off the government as well and they are no better than average American citizens. They would have us believe they are concerned about the poor, but only with our money. Which of them has proposed getting the same income as those on welfare? After all if food stamps are good enough for average Americans they must be good enough for congress!
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