The government has no right to steal from someone just because someone else needs help. Do people have a moral obligation to help others? Yes. But in a free country, that is their choice to make whether or not to help, not the governments choice to make for them. Ultimately, we are all responsible for the actions we take and the decisions we make, even when we become victims of circumstance. Theft is never the answer to a social problem. Taking money away from working people doesnt help their financial situation. Many of the problems you cite were created and fostered by government to begin with, so expecting the same entity to clean up the mess they created is insanity. You wouldnt have swaths of elderly people if the government hadnt taken half their paychecks through taxes and inflation while they were working. You wouldnt have so many people out of work if the government hadnt created a minimum wage law that made it illegal to hire low-skilled workers at their actual market value giving them a chance to gain job experience and learn skills that would allow them to climb the ladder out of poverty. You would have more jobs if government didnt so heavily tax small businesses making people reluctant to use their savings to start one. You wouldnt have peoples paychecks eaten up with inflation if the government hadnt run up debts so high, it was necessary to debase/devalue the currency to pay for it. You wouldnt have healthcare and college tuition costs going through the roof if it wasnt for government subsidies and student loans propping prices up and allowing these institutions to charge as much as the government offered to pay rather than force these institutions to compete in the free market solely for what people could afford. Whats worse now is that so many people have tied healthcare to their jobs, that now THEY are tied to their jobs. And you wouldnt have corporations sending their operations out of the country if the government hadnt levied the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the world on them---(well some of them, the ones the government didnt exempt from paying). If you were working for someone and their competitor offered a better compensation package to come work for them, youd jump at the chance yourself. So you cant lay the blame on corporations that leave the country for better offers elsewhere. Blame the government for not creating a competitive environment for them to stay. And no I dont believe corporations are people too. I believe in a free market--which is nothing more than a level playing field. It was the government---not the free market---that allowed GE to pay zero corporate tax in 2010 and even allowed them to claim a $3.2 billion credit. It was the government, not the free market, that gives all sorts of tax breaks to Wal-Mart so that they can eliminate competition and consolidate the retail sector into 1 giant chain. It was the government, not the free market, that encouraged the Federal Reserve to provide excessive leverage to large banks allowing for cheap loans for everyone, that caused a real estate and stock market bubble to form and eventually pop. It was the government, not the free market, that saved the banks while the mortgage holders went under...The problems in this country stems from too much government interference, not from a lack of it. The only way to have a fair market and a prosperous society is to get the government off the field as a player and put them back into their original role as a referee. The governments role in the economy is not to pick winners and losers, but to enforce contract laws, and prosecute fraud, theft,and counterfeiting---none of which they have done given that zero indictments for fraud and counterfeiting were handed out in the wake of the 2008 crash. Instead they have taken sides with the liars, thieves and counterfeiters. Might as well ask for help from the Gambinos.-Chris Blanchette
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:06:13 +0000
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