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Take an axe to government to save us from
'welfare for all'
Democrats introduced a bill earlier this month that would impose a
50 percent "windfall profits" tax on oil companies and give them
directly to Americans making less than $75,000 via quarterly checks.
Welfare benefits long ago reached a point at which it's more
beneficial to not work and continue receiving government largesse than it is to
seek employment. It has created a massive and ever-growing dependent class that
is bankrupting the country.
The Founders understood well the dangers of welfare programs and
redistribution schemes.
Benjamin Franklin said: "I am for doing good to the poor, but
I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the
poor, is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it.
In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the
more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for
themselves, and of course, became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was
done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
Democrats introduced a bill earlier this month that would impose a
50 percent "windfall profits" tax on oil companies and give them
directly to Americans making less than $75,000 via quarterly checks.
Welfare benefits long ago reached a point at which it's more
beneficial to not work and continue receiving government largesse than it is to
seek employment. It has created a massive and ever-growing dependent class that
is bankrupting the country.
The Founders understood well the dangers of welfare programs and
redistribution schemes.
Benjamin Franklin said: "I am for doing good to the poor, but
I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the
poor, is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it.
In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the
more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for
themselves, and of course, became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was
done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
And James Madison, the author of the Constitution, told the House
of Representatives that welfare is not the duty of the Federal government.
"[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined
to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are
more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the
government."
Washington prints large sums of money usually to hand to
corporations in the form of corporate welfare. But we know that "wealth
taxes" are all the rage amongst the socialist elected class, so a new tax
on profits is not a surprise.
Be sure that Congress will further jigger the tax code and pass
so-called "free trade" laws to make it more profitable for
corporations to outsource American manufacturing jobs and to save these oil
companies money on the employment side. All the while, Congress will sanction
the import of millions of aliens — legally and illegally — to flood the U.S.
market with workers content with slave wages. Obamacare has already caused
small businesses to close or to cut employees and hours in order to avoid
falling under its mandates. These policies drive up unemployment and drive down
wages.
People who do work are fed up. It should therefore cause any
thinking person to cease to wonder why companies reported 11.26 million job
openings (seasonally adjusted) in January, up by 57 percent, or by 4.1 million,
from January 2020. 4.5 million people voluntarily quit their jobs in January...
which was a decrease from
previous months. Workers
want better opportunities and more money.
Still, Pew research reports that almost half of adults who say
they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed. Meaning
federal unemployment benefit payouts are still humming along at over $2.2
billion per month.
Food stamp benefits have increased from 2020, from around $7.8
billion a month to $9.8 billion a month. The number of people receiving these
benefits has stayed the same. They're just getting more.
Half of all Americans now get some form of government assistance.
This has created artificially inflated food prices and cost consumers trillions
of dollars by forcing them to pay higher-than-market prices for food and
surrender ever-increasing sums of their wealth to taxes and inflation
(inflation is not 'higher prices'... it is your money becoming worth less, i.e.
worthless).
The elected class and the bureaucratic enablers hold themselves up
as paragons of virtue whose chief aim is to serve the public interest. History
has shown that when governments act to "protect the people," as often
as not, ruination and dependency result.
Cut away the cancer that is Big Gov't
The quickest way to kickstart the economy and reverse this decline
is to take an axe to government.
I'm not talking about slowing the growth of government, which in
legislative doublespeak is called a cut.
No, I'm talking about taking draconian measures like eliminating
unconstitutional agencies — the Departments of Education, Energy and Homeland
Security, the Transportation Security Administration, the Food and Drug
Administration and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for starters —
closing down military bases around the world, ending the perpetual wars and
bringing all troops home, phasing out social welfare programs and eliminating
funding for Leftist boondoggles like the National Endowment for the Arts.
President Biden and his cohorts in Congress just agreed to send
$13 billion to Ukraine. What will be "cut" from the budget to pay for
this? Nothing, of course. Government types and socialists — is that redundant?
— hear a suggestion like actual spending cuts and wail. The reality is
Republican elected elites have no more interest in cutting Federal spending
than Democrat elected elites.
It's not only those in government. Do you remember Cliven Bundy?
He pointed out the slavery inherent in government entitlements and was
figuratively tarred and feathered and abandoned by his spaghetti-spined
opportunistic pseudo-friends.
Slashing government and ending its ability to debase the currency
would be a giant leap toward reconstituting a healthy America and middle class,
which is being destroyed. Federal, State and local taxes added together mean
more than half of the middle-class worker's paycheck goes to satisfy the
government leviathan, which turns around and gives it away to
"entitlements" for the dependent class.
But that's what you get from the socialist elected elites. They
ignore the Constitution because to them the "be all and end all" is
government. They like big government and they like bigger government even
better. The elected elites aren't concerned with the plight of the middle
class. They cater to their corporate masters, to unions and to bureaucracies.
Many voters have been saying that the people will be able to right
the ship of state come November. But Russia's war in Ukraine has boosted
approval ratings for politicians, including the hapless President Biden. These
people will only make government bigger, and grow entitlements, and continue to
bankrupt America... and you can be sure that they plan, upon re-election, to
poke the electorate in the eye with a sharp stick, and then pass legislation
mandating you thank them for the poke.
Bob Livingston
Editor, The
Bob Livingston Letter®
POST SCRIPT
Biden unveils $5.8 trillion budget proposal with tax hikes, spending boosts
Expect High Inflation for Whole of this Decade
Due to Rampant Money Printing
US CP inflation at 7.9 % stands on the
brink of breaking above 8% with real inflation also at around 15% So much for
the Pandemic deflationary depression that the clueless mainstream media had
been promoting for the whole off 2020 and then sleep walked into mantra of
transitory inflation of 2021
SIDEBAR:
100 Survival Items You Forgot To Buy
Originally, this was a list of 50 survival items, but since
then, I've gotten all sorts of comments and messages from people telling me
about other things preppers often forget. Once I had 50 more, I added them to
the list. Now there's a total of 100.
To be clear, this isn't meant to be a comprehensive list of
every survival item you'll need. It's just a list of the ones that are often
overlooked. Hopefully, it will help you fill in any gaps in your survival plan.
For everything on this list that you already have, give yourself a pat on the
back...
100 Survival Items You Forgot To Buy
11 Ways to Turn Table Scraps Into
Delicious Meals
Billions of dollars' worth of food goes to waste in the U.S.
every year. Here's how to turn table scraps and other 'trash' into healthy
meals.
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