Take an axe to government to save us from 'welfare for all'

 

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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^®

 

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