Dear Representative Knollenberg,In your interview with Neil Cavuto today you demonstrated as clearly as could be why Republicans are losing elections. I am a Republican because I am a conservative who believes in the founding principles of the United States.
When I hear a Republican Congressman say that tax dollars are not our money, I know that Republicans have forgotten the difference between the United States and nearly every other country on the face of the earth.
To put it bluntly, in European democratic republics, the elected government replaces the sovereign. In the US, by contrast, the people are sovereign, while the government are our ministers. You all are the hired help. You are not our rulers. WE are the rulers, you are our stewards.
If you think that tax dollars are not OUR dollars, you have forgotten what the United States is about. When Republicans forget what this country is about the party loses elections.
It is the Democrats who are ashamed of American exceptionalism and who want to be more like the Europeans. It is liberals who think that private property and limited government are archaic notions.
These are simple ideas. Men of good will may disagree about them. But whether my sovereign is my lord by birth or by election, if he is my sovereign, I am not a free man. If the government and the representatives of the people think that I have some money only because the government permits me to keep a little of what by rights belongs to the government, I can no longer lift up my head.
Sir, you have forgotten what the United States is about. You have forgotten your place as our servant. You have forgotten what freedom is. The United States cannot continue to be the land of the free and the home of the brave when our elected representatives think that our tax dollars are theirs.
I hope you will refresh your memory regarding the founding principles of this country. I hope you will consider rereading the writings of the great men of this Republic. I hope you will realize that if you are my master and if my tax dollars are not mine, then none of us is truly free, and the United States is over.
Sincerely yours in freedom,
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