"Any
government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take
away everything you have." *
It
appears that a majority of American voters prefer freebies to freedom. Those who promise student loan forgiveness,
free college tuition, free health care, free public transportation, a
guaranteed income, and so forth are not doing it because they are
benevolent. They are doing it because if
the government can control your educational opportunities, access to medical
care, travel, and the livelihood upon which you depend, they can control
you. It’s all about power.
Fellow
citizens, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody has to pay. The Liberals, Progressives, and Democratic
Socialists say they will tax the “rich” to pay for it. A half-truth is still a lie. They will indeed tax the “rich,” but it is
not possible to raise the kind of revenue they will need to pay for what they
are proposing by taxing the “rich” alone.
The math just doesn’t work.
The
government will pay for your freebies with deficit spending (spending more than
they take in), which will drive huge increases in the public debt. When more public debt is created than the
government can pay for, they just print more money. That will increase the amount of money in
circulation, causing the value of money to go down. Mr. Average American, your
money will be worth less. In other
words, your hamburger will cost more in the future than it does now; much more. Does that sound familiar? It will take a hundred dollars to buy the athletic
shoes that now cost seventy-five. What
does this mean? It means that you
will pay for your “free” government benefits.
The
private sector converts natural resources into products, and value is added to
those products at various stages until they are sold to consumers. This productive activity creates wealth
resulting in prosperity (jobs) for those who are part of the productive
process. The government taxes the income
from productive activity and then spends it, often wastefully. When AOC and Bernie Sanders say they will pay
for your freebies by taxing the “rich,” what they will actually do is motivate
the “rich” to relocate productive activity overseas.
Dude! It means you will have to keep on living in
your parent’s basement because you can’t find a job.
It looks like those who voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
or who did not vote at all, may get the bad government they deserve. The rest of us (almost half the voters) who
voted for Donald Trump and Mike Pence may suffer for something that is not our
fault. We will just have to get by the
best we can until 2024. Hopefully, states
like Pennsylvania and Georgia will learn how to run an election honestly by
then.
*
“Neither
this quotation nor any of its variant forms has been found in the writings of
Thomas Jefferson … It was copyrighted in 1957 by the General Features
Corporation, as part of a syndicated newspaper feature called "Today's
Chuckle." It later became a popular saying among Republican
politicians. Governor Harold W. Handley of Indiana used it in his annual
message to the Indiana General Assembly in 1961; Barry Goldwater
was quoted using it in his 1964 run for president; and Gerald Ford
is on record using it in an address to a joint session of Congress on August
12, 1974.” https://www.monticello.org/
