I tell you that you this country can have it all. A ginormous budget surplus and all the social programs you want. And yes there is a catch. You have to introduce stability to government at all levels and to our businesses. You have to let go of big government, because the government has absolutely no role in the everyday lives of people outside of their official government functions.
Currently we have an unstable government that eats far too much of our resources and interferes in our lives far more than any government should. This causes an unstable business environment that causes businesses to fail or not be started at all. Those businesses are operating under a handicap that restricts their operation and their freedom. This over regulation insures an inadequate supply of goods and services at increased costs. Government has created the environment for John Galt to sit on his hands, and he is doing just that.
Some people have talked about taxing the rich even more and I think they should be taxed more. The problem is that taxing them at higher rates will cause lower economic output and higher prices. So you must tax them at a lower rate for them to pick up their activity. Yes, they will pay more in taxes. We the middle class, will not need to pay so much. It works. You may hate the rich, but they have one thing that most people do not. They have options. They can refuse to spend, they can leave, and when pushed we can leave too. Look at how California has been shedding businesses if you need proof. Look at the Millionaire tax in Maryland and New York. It caused an exodus to Florida and other low tax states. The wealthy have options.
The Federal, State, County and City governments regulations tell business how to structure their business, not only financially but physically as well. Through massive regulations Government is a very large silent partner in every business in this and every other state, an unwelcome partner; it eats resources needed by business. Government inhibits competition through these regulations and causes an environment that raises prices at an ever increasing rate, while the money becomes worth less and less. The government has failed The People by stealing the opportunities that would have benefited The People with lower prices, better service and more jobs.
Government is the cause of the instability and the insecurity that plagues this county, the state and the country. The instability of ever increasing regulations and taxes that put the brakes on free enterprise and cause unemployment. Yes, the GOVERNMENT, Federal and State and local governments CAUSED the record unemployment by limiting freedoms of the people and forcing them into a life of poverty.
The government’s greedy need to control people by restricting their opportunities and interfering in their lives shows itself in the rules propagated by the various agencies that were never voted on by the people either directly or indirectly. Many agencies have overstepped their bounds and many cannot fight them because the government has unlimited resources and courts are expensive. The agenda behind these regulations is to cripple the initiative of the people and to make business expensive and profitless. Currently, government polices promote and cause Poverty on a mass scale.
Government claims it wants to foster a positive business climate, but with so many pre-conditions, 99% of businesses will choose to go elsewhere and take their jobs with them. China anyone?
What we have now is not Capitalism but rather a bastard hybrid of social-croney-capitalism. What this social-croney-capitalism is equality of outcome and that is absurd. That is like having a race where everyone in the race is wearing weights; the better you are at the race the more weight you must carry, unless you are favored by government and allowed less weight. For you students it would be that you automatically get the grade the class earns and that becomes your grade, unless you are favored by the professor. A’s for every one makes the A worthless.
This is the system we have now. It doesn’t work, it just makes everyone miserable. If you like misery, in yourself or others then you have serious mental health issues.
The government stimulus has shown itself to be a monumental failure – AGAIN. !!! Just like FDR failed (on purpose). The principals of the New Deal were fundamentally flawed as has been proven. The principals of the New Deal were contrary to natural law. Everyone knows that if you want the car to move you have to put gas in the gastank and not the tail pipe. You can put 2000 gallons in the tail pipe but the car will not move unless you put the gas in the gastank. The government knows where the gas tank is but refuses to acknowledge it. Like all cars, capitalism, requires fuel every so often so it must slow down and get into the gas station, sometimes we have to change the oil. But soon capitalism picks back up again and we see new, improved inventions and personal enterprise. This is a natural course and follows natural law. Natural law is the basis of this country. Getting instep with natural law assures success.
With success comes new charity, (social programs) and society evolves into something better. What shape that is, nobody quite knows. That scares many people. Yes, there will be problems, but we as enlightened moral Americans will come up with answers that will not be perfect but will allow each to flourish to his want. Nobody will be left behind or abandoned unless they choose to be.
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