Jan
12
So I’m driving home from work and since I’m done listening to the same garbage being put out by the music industry, I started listening to Sean Hannity. He was predictably talking about conservatism. Specifically Regan style conservatism. Modern conservatism.
Sean rightly pointed out that Regan was a true conservative. Regan said, “government that governs the best, governs the least.” And he’s absolutely right. I firmly believe that. Governments that are interfere with the lives of their citizens aim to destroy them and create subjects. All governments want power. Governments thrive on power. They live for it. Much like a mob. A mob like government is a group of people that thinks it is collectively wields absolute power. And thus craves even more power. A mob robs people of their liberty by destroying that which they may hold most dear to them. The interruption of their very lives. The destruction of their home and property. Government is nothing more than a controlled mob. Left unchecked, it can destroy the lives of its citizens and their property.
And yet of all the Republican candidates running for the highest office in the country, Hannity has the audacity to refer to Ron Paul a a loon. Ron Paul is the only true conservative candidate. So what does Ron Paul believe? What is his position on some of the most important issues facing our country today? And the most important question, how does he differ from Reganesce Conservatism.
First up and dear to every one, taxes. He cut income taxes significantly, to the tune of trimming the top personal tax bracket from 70% to 28%. These cuts in the 80’s are attributed to the economic boom of the 90’s. Understanding the logic here is quite. The citizens of a nation want to build wealth and in order to do so they invest. They invest in stocks, in property, in education, or they shop sometimes for things they don’t need. Who’s to blame them? When a person has an excess amount of wealth, they shop for things they need and thus pumping money into the economy which has a rippling effect and the proof is in the pudding. During Regan’s administration the GDP grew nearly 3.4% a year.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the IRS because they collect taxes before we even get a chance to see the fruits of our labor. The take the money we’ve worked so hard to make and each year as we grow intellectually stronger and get better jobs they take even more. What is our incentive to working hard? What is our incentive to finding a higher paying job? The harder we work, the more they take. It is injustice on a grand scale and we sit back and except it because we are told that there is no other way.
We have to give in. The State takes the money we worked so hard to earn before we receive it, cuts a giant chunk off the top and redistributes it to support projects it deems worthy of supporting. Projects that we may or may not approve off that were designed, created, and supported by a bureaucratic goon working in the halls of the State. Very much like working for the Mob. Whatever you earn they take their cut off the top and support their apparatus, mostly to provide “security” to your life and business.
Of-course Ron Paul’s critics will argue, where do you get the much needed funding to support the “special” projects of the Mob State. Really? Is this really a concern? And what special projects? Like the “bridge to nowhere”:
“Last year a proposed $223 million for a “bridge to nowhere” connecting Alaska’s Gravina Island — population 50 — to the mainland caused a nationwide furor. The allocation was backed by Stevens and fellow Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska, the powerful chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure…”
Two hundred and twenty three million dollars for a bridge to an island occupied by a hand full of people. $223 million of our tax dollars.Surely that is just a bad example. What about the nice gems in the 2008 appropriations bill:
“Rep. Hobson is ranking member of the House Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations subcommittee. His place on the powerful Appropriations Committee allowed him to rack up 37 projects worth $35.8 million in the 2008 appropriations bills.”
If I had to list all the crap in the appropriations bill, I would puke.Ron Paul’s goal of getting rid of the IRS will definitely mean the government will not be getting a nice chunk from the treasure of the citizenry. And so the second part of the equation will be to cut spending. Cut spending left and right. The federal government should not be subsidizing the good Senator Steven’s desire to build a bridge.
$29 BILLION in wasted spending is something everyone needs to be concerned with. The population of the US is around 300 million and lets subtract 30 million (give or take a few thousand) illegal immigrants who don’t pay income taxes. You do the math.
Keep tuned into the Hannitizer. More to come…
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You spelled “Reagan” wrong