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Crazy Uncle Harry Reid Says You Want to Pay More Tax

October 27, 2013 11:36

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” — Richard Feynman

“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” — Alan Greenspan

The sad truth is that the ‘someone else’ is their own children and grandchildren. The resulting dependency on government is indeed ‘fundamentally transforming’ America. The problem is that what we are being transformed into is a welfare state model that has already been shown to fail in many European countries.

The math just does not work. The truth is government-run, taxpayer-funded, anti-poverty programs do not work. Printing the money creates inflation which is just a sneaky way to steal your money without raising taxes.

The continuing money printing plan known as QEII or ‘quantitative easing’ could devalue our dollar another 20%. That means your dollar will by 20% less at some point in the next two to five years. Are you ready for that?

Those with a socialist agenda to ‘fundamentally transform’ America have accomplished a great deal. They control the message in the schools, colleges, unions, and in most of the mass media.They have instituted a vast new bureaucracy with almost unlimited powers that reaches into all aspects of our lives with the passage of monstrous bills disguised as health care reform, financial reform, student loan program and consumer protection.

In 1964 Senator Everett Dirksen warned about Democrats being “prone to spend money .. when it’s rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interests of the people. Because you pile up your national debt. You pile up the interest. You pile up these staggering deficits that we have at the present time. And that spends itself in terms of higher interest rates, higher prices in the stores where people shop. And so the evil effects always fall upon the people back home.”

“A politician cannot spend one dime on any spending project without first taking that dime from the person who earned it. So, when a politician votes for a spending bill he is saying that he believes the government should spend that particular dollar rather than the individual who worked for it.” Neal Boortz.

“There is no such thing as government money — only taxpayer money.” William Weld, quoted in Readers Digest.

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” — Barack Obama

“Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, its time to try something new. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt.” — President Barack Obama on his Office of Management and Budget website.

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds… [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers… And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another]… till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery… And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.” — (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816