Tax Cuts Don't Cost Anything

A couple of calls and a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman showed me the need for an EIB Economics Seminar to debunk some of the left's big myths. Our economics education is so inept, someone has to do it - and who's more qualified than Professor Limbaugh?

Back in 1984, I saw a Roper poll where more than 50% of Americans said there should be a limit on how much Americans can make. Well, hell's bells! That is flat out ridiculous! Yet this always pops up, as it did on Tuesday when we heard Friedman say that Bush should call for CEOs to cut their salaries by 10%.

This is not the way to get executive pay down or to get employee pay up. To say otherwise is to exhibit a lack of understanding of how business works. I have to warn you people who slurp up this class warfare garbage: if you are going to so readily start talking about slashing somebody else's pay, then understand somebody's going to come along and legally have a right to start slashing yours. You want to go down that road? I didn't think so.

Before you start talking about slashing CEO income, start thinking about slashing government income, will you? You want to cut CEO pay by 10%? How about the federal government cutting its income by half that much?

Can you imagine the explosion of economic growth and prosperity and job creation that would occur in the private sector if all taxes were cut by 10% and the federal government was required to tighten its belt? "Oh, no, Rush! The government can never do with less. Why, we can't let people have the money they earn! We know how to spend it better than they do!"

This kind of thinking ends up with next year's federal budget increasing by a whopping 14%! Not even these eeeevil CEOs get automatic raises of that amount. So why let Big Government take your checkbook and write itself this kind of raise? Why do you call for CEO salaries to be cut, presumably so you can get more pay, but you don't call for government to slash its salary so you can keep more of your pay?

Forgive me for being so basic, but let me ask a simple question: How much money does the government earn? The answer, of course, is nothing. All their money comes from us. The government doesn't "earn" anything - not the way the liberals want you to think it does. So if the government's money all comes from the people, then when we stand up and say, "Sorry, we can't afford to pay so much to you in taxes," how is that costing the government money?

I'm sick and tired of hearing that tax cuts "cost" too much, when it's government that costs too much. If you cut your child's allowance, the little skull full of mush doesn't say, "But I can't afford to stop getting that money. This allowance cut costs me too much!" The problem is the word "cost," as if the government is the parent. The government is the child - and a spoiled one at that. We pay an allowance to keep it going, not the other way around.

Senator Tom "Puff" Daschle announced on Monday that he could see the pieces in place for a deal on an economic stimulus package. But as with all so-called compromises, the only one Daschle sees happens when Republicans give up their plan to return money to the American people in the form of a tax cut.

Daschle can never, ever, ever sign on to anything that makes the government do with less. You can suffer at home when you lose your job and be forced to do with less, but the bureaucracy must never go hungry.

Why even say you're close to a deal if the GOP will drop plans for faster implementation of tax cuts, when that is the whole reason the House Republicans are putting their deal together in the first place? This is a tactic, folks, nothing more than a tactic. Words mean things, and "compromise" should mean both sides giving something to get a deal. But that's not what the Democrats mean by the word. They never, ever give up their opposition to letting the American people get some tax relief. They only stonewall until the GOP caves.

All your money are belong to us.

Governments (at all levels) view taxpayers as a "cash cow," to be milked and bilked exclusively for the government's benefit. Promising much, delivering little (except to their friends and cronies), government officials (elected and appointed) and government employees care little about the American people, for whom they work; their main concern is advancing their own careers.

The written and oral history of the leaders and would-be leaders of countries, since antiquity, is rife with tales of Machiavellian intrigue, wars, murder, plots, schemes, conspiracies, treason, betrayal, etc., etc.

Why?

Because, unlike the song, all the gold is not in a bank in California, it is in the King's counting room. Simply put, King's exercise power and are generally rich beyond belief (who wants to be a poor King? Where is the advantage in that?).

What does that have to do with Tax cuts?

Kings, and those who would be Kings, and their syncophants, court jesters and hangers-on, never willingly give up either our money or their power!

Their power flows from our money!

Therefore, it is incumbant that We the People be eternally vigilant, to oppose any and all misuse of our money.

And therein lies the problem: We the People have not been vigilant, and now find ourselves in a predicament entirely of our own making. Our money is being misused, and we are, in effect, unwilling to do anything about it.

But we are, you say?

The record says otherwise: Only 50.7% of registered voters voted in 2000, and something like 90% of incumbant politicians (who ran) were re-elected!

Had the American people been willing to force change on their government in 2000, more Americans would have participated in the campaign and voted, and more professional politicians would have been sent home. The American people would have supported anti-status quo politicians, and the possibility of real change enhanced.

But the American people were not willing to work for or get out and vote for change. Therefore, we will not get much change in the way our governments work.

A simple definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing you have always done and expecting a different outcome.

This is not Rocket Science: As long as the American people continue to do what we have always done, we will get the same result! To change the outcome, we have to change the way we go about our civic duties, among which are getting and staying engaged in the political process at some minimal level such as taking a few minutes every year or two to get out and vote!

What does this have to do with tax cuts?

When We the American people come to understand that not just Democrats in government are opposed to tax relief, that, in fact, the whole of government is opposed to tax relief, and get off our butts and DO SOMETHING, NOTHING WILL GET DONE!

Wake up America! Get organized! Become an activist for fundamental change in the way our government operates! If nothing else, plan to vote next year in the primary and general elections. If you can do more, do more! But do something!

Remember, under our form of government, each and every public servant in America WORKS FOR US! WE ARE THEIR BOSS! WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIRE SOME OR ALL OF THEM EVERY TWO YEARS!

Right now is not too early to start planning and working for the elections of 2002!

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]

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