Natural Consquences

When raising kids there are a couple of things parents depend upon. One is "natural consequences."

Natural consequences are the perfectly natural and spontaneous outcome of decisions our children make. For example, if you grab something that is hot you get burned. This is a natural consequence and teaches us to be careful about grabbing things.

Tuesday's general election will have natural consequences. There is no doubt about the agenda of the Obama administration and the liberals who run the Democratic party. They have bought yet another election by promising more to people which will drive the country deeper into debt. I don't want to see people barely making it from paycheck to paycheck either, but bankrupting the country isn't a solution. This incessant borrowing of money that we can't afford to borrow is the kind of thing that will destroy everything.

Unfortunately there are a substantial number of people (generally reported to be over 40%) who pay no taxes whatsoever and therefore see nothing wrong with the government handing out more money. Why? Because it doesn't come out of their pockets.

I was figuring the other day that between Federal Income Tax, State Income Tax, Sales Tax, Property Tax, Vehicle Taxes, Medicare, and Social Security about half of everything I earn is taken away by one tax or another. That might even be OK if someone was actually benefitting from this, but it doesn't seem to be happening. Why? Because most of the taxes that are collected from me don't actually pay for any services. What? That's right.

Most of the taxes I pay are actually paying interest on loans the government has received to pay for all that stuff the taxes wouldn't cover. The government has essentially been writing checks with no money in the bank. If we did that we be facing serious jail time, but when the government does it they consider it a "stimulus."