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Stimulus: Republican vs. Democrat
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Ogre
The “big” news is that the Democrats want to pass a new stimulus plan. Now I’m no longer a fan of the big-government Republican party, but some times they are actually different from the Democrats (not often). In this case, the difference is rather extreme:
Republican Stimulus: Give people some of their own money.
Democrat Stimulus: Let government spend more of the people’s money.
Then again, you can consider what would happen if people like Ron Paul, Libertarians, or the Constitution Party were running the place:
Stimulus: Government stop collecting and spending money that’s not theirs.
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The most basic analysis of the problem quickly reveals that we no longer have leaders that have the capacity to distinguish between a “want” and a “need”. The functional requirements for any government revolves around satisfying the peoples basic needs (ie fire departments, defense, etc). No governent should EVER be involved in trying to satisfy allaour WANTS. There will always and forever be those who wish to satisfy all their wants at the behest of the power of taxation. That is a patently wrong and evil idea. No one should ever be placed under the threat of jail time for not paying their taxes so someone else can satisfy their wants, especially when it gets used for such stuff as public artwork. America has a great private ssector, and these wants are great places to spend the money we make, IF WE WANT to, but it is NOT the governments right to tax me, or anyone else, for frivilous wants.
We of course have a problem with revenue collections for the government in the fact that they collect way too much (far more than required to satsfy our “needs”, but the far bigger problem is that we have a spending problem of gargantuan proportions, trying to satisfy every “want” we coulkd ever dream of. The kid in the candy store mentality of our “leaders” is killing us, and our country.
I honestly don’t think government should even consider providing anyone with, well, anything. No, not even needs. Government, in a free society, will only be involved with stopping people from preventing other people from meeting their own needs.
In other words, we NEED food. But there’s NO way that government should provide food to anyone, ever. If one person tries to take another’s food, that’s when government should step in.
So I’m right there with you, Daryl, but I’d got a lot further. Getting government to stop providing wants would certainly be a good start!