9 thoughts on “America’s Wealth”

1. 1) It’s not just that they don’t know how, which they don’t. They’ve been raised to believe that success and wealth are evil.

   2) The problem is not that they are wasteful. The problem is they are thieves and people are ok with that. It’s more a moral problem than a waste problem. If people kept their own money, rather than people letting the government steal it, the waste issue goes away.

   3) I hate fire in the belly arguments. We breed apathy with ‘welfare.’ I wish they never put the ‘general welfare’ language in the constitution because it’s too easy for demagogues to twist that into whatever they want it to be (always involving theft.)

   4) Just different wording of 3).

   5) Mixing problems. Who cares what people decide they need? The issue is theft.

2. We’ve grown wasteful as a nation. Not long ago, I did a HuffPostLive Panel about the money the government spends on PBS. The biggest defense offered for spending 3 1/2 billion dollars over the next decade on a television station when hundreds of commercial channels exist? “It’s such a small amount of money.”

   On a slightly larger scale, the same “reasoning” is reasoning is applied to NASA. In fact, a Planetary Society rep used those exact words when defending Curiosity.

   1. Yep. They never ask, “Whose money?”

   2. Can you imagine someone suggesting this in America? Since they elected the empty suit it would not come as such a surprise anymore.

      1. The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.

         “If you oppose that, you must be some right-wing Ayn Rand-worshiping kook that doesn’t want to pay any taxes evar!!!111!FUUUUUU”

         1. Sounds like a scheme to hide how much income tax is being taken.

      2. Glancing around, the story about the UK government fondling paychecks appeared to be an attempt to get page views rather than a proposal, serious or otherwise. All I can say is that the original story and the author’s bio page both appear to have been pulled from the CNBC website.

3. So you won’t mind paying $100.00 for a hamburger because after all, it is such a small percentage of your income.

4. I’m starting to strongly favor an adjustment regarding qualifications to vote.

   In theory, I’d favor a test to make sure the voter is an informed voter. However, I’ve yet to see a way to do that fairly (that wouldn’t be manipulated).

   There is, however, another option; make it financial. If you get more than you pay in, you can’;t vote. Social security would be exempt (we pay into that individually) and military pay and pensions would likewise be exempt. This way, those who are not contributing to the general fund get no say in how it’s spent.

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