I normally do not put up entire posts from other folks, but Neal Boortz has this one down pat. In it, he demonstrates the absurdity of the what Federal Govt does by taking away, via taxes, that is a good sum of money that for most middle class Americans. It demonstrates the angst of the phrase:
"Do you REALLY think that Government can spend YOUR money better than YOU can?"
Boortz (emphasis mine):
OK so this is a miniscule example, but hear me out. The average family tax burden in America is $10,000. Now imagine that Barack Obama gathered you and five of your neighbors into a backyard, sat you down and said: OK, folks. Now I know that the tax burden for each of your families was probably around $10,000 this year. That means that collectively, you as neighbors have contributed about $60,000 to mandatory federal collection plate. I understand that you probably have a few ideas of what you could do with this $10,000 that my imperial federal government has now taken from you at the point of a gun. But as your ruler, I have decided that I am going to take this $60,000 and give it to some students at the University of Southern California. No, no no .. just hear me out! Look, these kids came up with some really cool
applications for your cell phones. What’s that you say, they could design these apps and sell them in the private marketplace and possibly make a lot of money? Nah, well we as the government believe that if the government doesn’t pay these kids to ‘do the right thing,’ it will never get done. So we paid these kids to create phones apps to encourage people to exercise and eat healthy meals. Isn’t that cool?? Don’t you feel better knowing that your tax dollars are funding a phone app to tell people to exercise and eat their veggies? But that’s not all! Next year, we are going to use all of your taxes again to pay contest winners who create healthy recipes for school lunches. Thank you for your mandatory contribution. Now the teleprompter has malfunctioned so that’s about as far as I can go for today.
I want to really hear WHY the writing of this code is such a Federal priority – is this something that the private sector really can’t do for itself? No, of course not! This is just one small (but good) example of how our money is used in a cause of changing our behavior by these high and mighty politicians in DC?
And these clowns think they know better how to live our lives better than we do?
