Soap Box

It literally infuriates me to hear a senator or congressman commenting on a tax cut by saying, “We can’t afford it,” or “How do we pay for it?” What they mean is they’re afraid that if we give them less to spend they may have to take a more sensible approach to spending our hard-earned tax money.

When it comes down to it, it’s not about us, it’s all about them, the proliferation of their political careers and their ever increasing, accursed quest for power.

No matter how beneficial modifications to the tax code or the easing of the tax burden may be for the general public, they always couch their reaction with phrases like “tax cuts for the rich” or “tax breaks for big business.”

Personally, I don’t care how much bigger tax break everybody else gets as long as I get the one coming to me, what difference does it make as long as it stimulates the economy and creates jobs, which means a bigger tax base, more people paying in and bigger revenues for the government coffers.

As long as the economy is humming along it doesn’t bother me at all that somebody like Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates gets a bigger tax break than I do, because people like them didn’t get to where they are by letting their money lie around in bank accounts, but investing it and creating even more jobs and prosperity for America and even more money for them.

The reason politicians don’t want you to have tax cuts is that every dollar you get to keep is one dollar they can’t get their grubby hands on. Giving Washington and state capitols money is like tossing it into a black hole.

The problem with tax cuts is not that they would not cause a huge uptick in the economy as so many of our profligate “public servants” claim, the problem is that when the new money starts coming in, if the newfound progress is to continue we have to force them not to spend it.

In other words, the Senate, House and president need to be put on a budget, they have to be told there are fiscal boundaries and parameters they are not allowed to cross and that when they have reached that point, they are cut off and their checks will bounce.

You have to run your household on a budget, you can’t spend money you don’t have and expect somebody else to make up the shortfall.

If you ran your business like the government runs theirs, you’d soon have no business to run.

It’s time to clip some wings in Washington, to end the wasteful pet projects and multimillion-dollar cronyism, put an end to a tax code that makes it all but impossible for ordinary citizens to file their own tax returns.

These people work for us, they are elected to represent us, not their own political aspirations, not a handful of large donors and not the powerful lobbyists who corrupt our unfortunately vulnerable politicians.

Government is a self-proliferating organism, which supports and sustains multiple agencies who actually do the same thing, making most of them totally unnecessary. Government is like an insatiable pig that eats everything that’s put before it and instantly wants more and more.

Many state governments, the sensible ones, are forced to operate on a budget and when they have gone through the money they are allotted, that’s it and they can suffer the consequences.

Why shouldn’t the federal government not be held to that kind of standard, to be forced to operate on the funds Americans agree to give them and not have a blank check and allow their crazed spending to threaten the well-being of generations to come?

Already our national debt is beyond anything we can ever hope to pay back unless our economy heats up exponentially and a muzzle is put on the profligates feeding at the taxpayers’ trough.

It’s time to break up the “old boy” networks and power cliques that corrupt the system and stall real progress.

It’s time - in fact way overdue - for term limits.

What do you think?

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— Charlie Daniels

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