Why We Need Term Limits
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3
The Fair Tax
The government has to have money to pay for the military, cover the cost of obligations we’ve made like Medicare and Social Security, and build roads, bridges, and airports. We need some things government does so clearly there has to be a tax process. But the one we have is a detriment to our economy. What if there was a tax plan that was flat, fair, and family-friendly? There is one. It’s called the Fair Tax, and it would super-charge our economy, but it is terribly misunderstood and opponents say it would raise your taxes. It wouldn’t. It’s pretty simple, really. You wouldn’t be taxed for your work, savings, inheritance, or good business decisions. The Fair Tax would be collected at the point of purchase instead of the point of production. The current tax system is essentially a penalty on what you produce. We tax your work in the form of an income or payroll tax. And if you work for someone else, your money is taxed before you even get it. It’s taken out of your check before you even cash it. Most people don’t have any idea how much they actually pay in taxes because they never see it. And how nice of you to let the government take your money and use it all year interest free. The Fair Tax is essentially a sales tax or more broadly a consumption tax. You only pay when you purchase something that is new and hasn’t been taxed before.
Presently we punish productivity and subsidize irresponsibility. If I invest in something that increases in value which means I made a smart investment, I pay capital gains taxes. But if I invest in something that loses money, I can write that off of my taxes. Get that? Successful investments are punished; failed investments are rewarded. Only the government could create something so absurd!
What makes a strong economy? Work, investments in businesses, savings—even putting aside money to leave for your family to get started with a house or a business. And maybe saving enough to give to charity at one’s death. But we tax all of that. If you spend all your money on stupid stuff or just don’t work, the government will help out with your medical bills and provide a check so you can stay home and play video games. Now here’s a simple principle: If there is a behavior you want more of, reward it; if there is a behavior you want less of, punish it. That’s how we raise children and train dogs. Do the trick and get the treat. But our tax system is the opposite of that. Punish productivity and reward irresponsibility.
The fair tax changes that by letting you keep the money you earn, invest or save. It eliminates the income tax, capital gains tax, and the death tax. You pay taxes when you buy something. And it completely eliminates the IRS. They would be disbanded. Don’t want to pay as much tax? Don’t buy stuff.
But you know who DOESN’T pay income tax, capital gains or inheritance tax like you do? Prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, and gamblers. They don’t fill out forms in April and tell the government how much they made selling crack to Hunter Biden! So you are paying YOUR taxes and theirs. But if we paid tax when we purchased things, the prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers and gamblers would pay tax because they still buy stuff. Sometimes lots of stuff that you can’t afford.
The Fair Tax was created by a group of some of the most brilliant economists in the country. They were charged with proposing the fairest and most efficient form of getting the money the government needs without creating a tax code that is so complicated even the IRS doesn’t understand it and you need accountants and lawyers just to comply with it. With the Fair Tax, there are no tax returns. Nothing is taken out of your check. For most of you, for the first time in your life you’d get your entire pay check and April 15 would just be another beautiful Spring Day.
In the coming weeks, I’ll tell you more about the Fair Tax because there are a lot of people in government who don’t want it since it takes away the power to manipulate the tax code to reward political donors and punish political enemies. I feel pretty sure I can help you understand that the system we have now needs to be thrown out and a new plan put in place that’s fair, flat, and family friendly. And did I mention, it eliminates the IRS?
A New Song for Democrats
The 1929 song “Happy Days Are Here Again” has been the unofficial theme song of the Democratic Party since FDR used it as a campaign song in 1932. But looking around at the filth-covered, crime-plagued dystopias that have been created in various cities and states by decades of Democratic rule, I think we can all agree that “Happy Days” are hardly the result of Democratic governance. In short, the party needs a new theme song.
“The Internationale” is a little too on-the-nose, so judging by the Party’s recent descent into widespread denial of reality and brutally-enforced self-delusion, I would like to suggest the 1939 tune recorded by everyone from Vera Lynn and Glenn Miller to Connee Boswell: “Wishing Will Make It So.”
Here’s a sample of the lyrics. Tell me if this doesn’t sound like the current “woke” DNC platform:
“Wishing will make it so…Just keep on wishing and care will go…Dreamers tell us dreams come true, It’s no mistake…And wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake…”
Are you a man who wants to be a woman? Well, just say you’re a woman, and you ARE! Wishing will make it so! Don’t like the police? Fire them all, and crime will magically go down by itself! Are people being robbed, raped and murdered every day? Claim that’s all in your political opponents’ imaginations, and it miraculously goes away! Are there inconvenient facts about sleazy deals or dishonest and disastrous national health policies that might harm your electoral chances? Bully social media platforms into silencing any talk about them and they disappear! Is the economy struggling and hamstrung by inflation? Then declare inflation over and the economy booming, and they are! Were only 10,000 jobs created during the last quarter? Say a million jobs were created…and they were! Suffering horrific problems caused by an open border? Then insist that the border isn’t open, and abracadabra! It’s secure!
I could easily fill up the rest of this essay by just continuing with that last paragraph. The Democrats have become the denial of reality party. They make up new jaw-dropping fantasies faster than President Biden invents new jobs that he used to hold. The question is, how have they brainwashed so many people into actually believing this tripe?
The answer is that they really haven’t. They’ve managed to take over a number of cities and states by driving the reality-based community out, leaving behind almost nothing but their natural constituency: self-deluded radicals and people dependent on government. That’s now become obvious with the year-end release of the latest Census data showing the continued exodus of population from blue to red states.
Texas and Florida make up about 15% of the US population, but accounted for 70% of population growth. From July 2021-2022, the US population grew by about 1.2 million, but California lost over 343,000 residents to other states, and New York nearly 300,000. Blue states that are still showing population growth, like Washington, mostly owe it to foreign immigrants.
The new term for this is the “Texodus,” since so many are heading to Texas, but Scott McKay at Spectator.org also adds “Flexodus” to cover the huge migration to Florida. As he notes, those who were disappointed that New York voters kept reality-denier Kathy Hochul as their Governor when they could have saved the state by electing Lee Zeldin must understand that the rational voters he needed to win had already moved to Florida and gave Ron DeSantis a landslide victory.
https://spectator.org/texodus-and-flexodus-and-what-they-mean-for-america/
But how long can this continual downward spiral continue? You’d think the people would revolt at some point, or the politicians would do something to head off the crash. But they won’t because, as McKay points out, this is planned. It even has a name: “Weaponized Governmental Failure.” Terrible leftist leaders like Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer and Lori Lightfoot want the productive, middle class people to move out because they actually expect results for their tax dollars and accountability from politicians. When they call 911, they think cops should show up. That’s not the Democrats’ model anymore. They hate normal Americans like that. They’re all in on maintaining power through identity politics, divisiveness, chaos, demonization and government dependence.
And if productive people leave and take their tax dollars with them? Who cares, as long as Democrats in DC keep taxing the productivity of red states and sending billions to failed blue states and cities?
The best thing that could happen to those blue states and the people in them might be forcing them to go through bankruptcy and get their houses in order, but that will never happen as long as Washington keeps refilling their troughs with other people’s money. There’s a way to stop that, but it will take a major change at the federal level, and not just of Democrats, but also some Congressional Republicans who are reliably complicit in the scam, as we’ve just seen.
Read McKay’s entire article. It’s a bracing blast of cold reality in a political world that’s been obscured by a fog of fantasy.
Why We Need Term Limits
You’ve heard the saying, "Two things you should never watch being made -- a law and sausage." I don't agree with half of that. I've been involved in lawmaking as a Lieutenant Governor presiding over the State Senate and as a Governor negotiating every step of the process with a legislature that was 90 percent Democrat. I've also seen sausage made.
I still eat sausage.
For the faint of heart and those without a strong stomach, seeing the process of politics become the process of governing can result in serious reactions. It's not a pretty process. It can be tedious, exasperating, and embarrassing. But let me let you in on a little secret: it’s supposed to be!