I don’t know about you, fellow taxpayers, but I’m not terribly impressed so far with how Obama and his enabling cabal of Democrat Congress critters have been using the money we’ve already given them. Instead of bearing down on incentivizing job creation in the private sector — a proven strategy for ending recessions — Obama, Pelosi, and Reid went on a wild government spending spree that made George W. Bush and his spendthrift pals look like veritable tightwads.
The Democrats spent two years growing the federal government, handing huge sums of our money to their union cronies and propping up every idiotic liberal dream scheme that ever popped out of an intellectual’s closet. They had the unrivaled gall to call this stupid stuff “economic stimulus.” Then, they shoved that big-bleeping-deal Obamacare down our throats — just assuming, I suppose, that someone, somewhere would create the wealth to pay for it.
Our November votes, at least, put a set of brakes on Obama’s socialist dune buggy, but his adolescent lead foot just can’t wait to get back on the spending-our-money accelerator. With American families eating less every week to make up for “nonexistent” inflation, Barry O has his task cut out for him. With gas skyrocketing and prices expected to hit $5.00 a gallon by Memorial Day, American families are now scaling back those already-pared-to-the-bone vacation plans. The president managed to read that committee-written speech he had on his teleprompter with his customary deadpan eloquence. Enough to impress Democrats, perhaps, but not to call forth from the rest of America a vast, heartened outcry of “Give it all to the government!”
Actually many of Obama's hires seemed to have trouble paying their tax bills, like Geitner or even other rich Dems like Sen. Kerry who was caught for evading taxes on his yacht.
So it is OK to pass higher taxes on others but you don't feel you have to pay them yourself?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
