The taxpayers have spoken

With the vote earlier this week, California taxpayers sent a resounding "NO FURTHER – NO MORE" message to the politicians. Think of it as "Tea Parties writ LARGE".  No longer do taxpayers want to subsidize everything under the sun; no more spending other peoples’ money for their bright (hmm, I may want to rethink that adjective) ideas and glorious policies – which have the Law of Unintended Consequence results that we all expect…

…because most politicians aren’t thinking policies through (er, "read the bill" should really be "study the bill and figure out how it can be gamed…"). Gina Cobb over at RightWingNews has an example of what I have said for years from owning a day-care center that accepted state subsidized / supported clients:

I’ve seen it with my own eyes.  I’ve seen an illegal alien and legal immigrants who qualify for benefits due to low income pool their funds to buy a $700,000 home — while some of them are collecting free medical care for their children from "Healthy Families" and paying reduced rates for their utilities based on their "low income."  I’ve seen middle-class families struggling to afford college, while children of the poor get a free ride.  I’ve seen the college tuition and fees of the struggling middle-class families increased to provide even more free college for the poor.  The distortions, waste, and unfairnesses created by one well-meaning social program after another have added up to a real mess for California.

It’s time to get real.  It’s time to let able-bodied people — gasp!  — provide for their own routine essential needs like regular doctor’s appointments and college expenses.

Go read the post for the background.  Moral: the rich can afford to pay (no brainer).  The middle class suffers in providing for itself and its children, often going without.  The poor gets subsidized by the State in all sorts of areas of life (known fact) and as seen above, takes advantage (as in abuses) of the money taken from others to give to the poor.

A good reason why to stop government sponsored charity and revert back to when it was voluntary….