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Jeanne “Central Planner” Shaheen

Jeanne Shaheen The Central Planning MachineThe Union Leader has done us a service these past two days by exposing Governor Shaheen for who she is.   In back to back staff editorials we see that her priority is to filter money through the hands of distant bureaucrats rather than find ways to keep it in New Hampshire in the first place.

Her supporters will say, as they did with the earmarking debate, that we need these kinds of representatives "to get our money back from Washington."  But I have always said, would it not be better if we had representatives who just worked harder to keep it here?  Why must it leave in the first place?

It must leave so our former governor can brag on her press page about how she has helped bring money into the state for this or that.  And this or that is always from a list of benefactors and favorites of the political left.  And that is why she cannot leave the money in state where it belongs.

The Democrats must ensure that more revenue is taxed out of the state so that Senators like Jeanne Shaheen can then direct it back to people and places of their choosing; those entities that are also most likely to support her political career or her party Agenda.  No one should be surprised that this is exactly the case.

It is socialist central planning at it’s best.  Controlling the means of production by denying wage earners and business owners more and more of their earnings and investment so that it can be divided up amongst the faithful supporters of the Democrat Party.  Incrementally, that is what this is, and massive debt is little more than making the commitment generational.  No one should be surprised that this is exactly the case.

That was the point of the stimulus and it is the purpose of Obama’s jobs tax bill on employers–which still has no Democrat co-sponsors by the way, not even Jeanne Shaheen.  The point is to divert as much revenue as possible through the hands of unelected bureaucrats, to pay that base of left wing constituents, and whenever possible add to it. Federal funding specifically for more union-dues-paying police officers is a fine example of this.

But as the UL points out this morning, when the money runs out for those police officers (as an example) taxpayers will be thrown a massive guilt trip by the left, their commitment to public safety will be brought into question, and they will be intimidated into ponying up more money locally when the federal money dries up. (The federal taxes will not have gone down of course.)  And if they do not, they should expect the union to try and force it out of them.

Democrats just do not trust you to spend your money on what interests them. And given their spousal abuse of our economy who could blame you.  It is why they direct all money to the farthest destination from you, always adding more layers of bureaucrats to protect it.  And it is why they must insist that the property is not even yours to begin with.  Otherwise it would be stealing and no different than what a mugger does in a dark alley with knife at your back–relieve you of that which is not yours to pay for things you would not have spent your money on.

 

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