The Distribution of Wealth
Second Stimulus:
By now most of you American citizens have received and spent your stimulus checks without giving much thought to why you deserved it in the first place or what it did to help the economy. The odds are that you spent it on paying down one of your 3 credit card balances, as the majority of Americans are in debt. Most of you have not considered the implications of flagrant wealth distribution, where they are essentially saying, “We will take the profit of one man’s productive achievements at the point of a gun and we will give it to anyone we want.”
Typically the government will take that money they steal and spend approximately 65%+ on the military, arguably protecting US citizens. Although a good portion of that is our occupation of countries around the world. Rebuilding places we’ve bombed, training foreign troops, even that wall in California to stop Mexicans from crossing illegally is in our military spending budget. They call it the “Department of Defense” but I sure see us taking initiative in many of these wars we fight. Its not that I am even anti-war; I love throwing out bad governments as much as the next guy. What upsets me is the philosophy that Iraqis cannot govern themselves and need us to fund and babysit them.
The other ~35% is all that other stuff. F.E.M.A. who typically goes into a disaster zone and makes things a little worse. That secret government that can suspend the constitution at will. The Army Corps of Engineers and their complete failure with the levee system (as seen in New Orleans and Iowa). If these guys were half as good at construction waterways as they are at extortion, we’d never seen another flood in this country, ever. The Department of Homeland Security which has the power to pop into your home without a warrant and go looking through your things. Yay Patriot Act. The Department of Education, with the bloated budget for the “No Child Left Behind” program. You’re against that?! You want to leave children behind!?! Blah! I hate those humanitarian sounding names for disastrous, expensive, counterproductive programs. NASA too! Is it me, or are they actually doing a fairly good job? I am always seeing new Mars pictures, new Hubble photos, and hearing about space progress on a limited budget. The IRS, so they can call your house and harass your family. I always hear stories about IRS Agents threatening children with, “If your Dad doesn’t pay we are going to take you away from your family.”
So we are taxed about 40% to reach the level of spending that supports all these (mostly) useless organizations that are grossly incompetent and superfluous. For every Billion dollars of the US budget (the 1100 Billion US budget) each of us pays about $4 (making up about $550 Million). If you paid more than about $450 in taxes last year you are covering someone else’s share too (of the FEDERAL budget, I am not going to even mention the state budgets). In addition to that, every employer pays $1 ($150 Mil). Every Corporation pays $20 ($110Mil). About $40 Million is collected in estate, gift, excise, luxury and other taxes. The rest is borrowed (meaning the government is borrowing it in your name. You are the one who has to pay that back). What most of us US Citizens don’t realize is the Government has no money. They don’t make money or provide value that they get paid for to cover the debts they incur. They take your money for that. They borrow planning on taking future money from you as well. Creating all these new laws and occupying developing nations is expensive work!
The sad part is, you cannot opt out. You’re stuck paying for wars, levees that don’t work, asbestos ridden FEMA trailers, Dick Cheney’s Salary, and Public school teachers on paid leave (after having sexual relations with students)! Any time one of those illegal Mexican immigrants (driving drunk) sends another uninsured person to the hospital its up to you to pay that bill. So why are you, the tax payer, not more upset about this? They’ve got you fooled a bit though. Ask anyone you know how much money they make, and they will probably tell you what their take-home pay is. They are so used to having their money stolen before they even see it, that they don’t even know what they earn anymore. If you have $300 taken out of each paycheck, the government is still taking $7200 from you every year. They just don’t send you the bill all at once… because if they did, people would be more upset. And by the way, $7200 is getting off easy! As you earn more, they steal more. If you’re single and make $6,000/month, at the end of the year the government wants $24,000. Which takes you 4 months of 8 hour work days at the job you got educated for and work hard at to pay off (assuming you have no other bills).
I hope you’re getting your moneys worth. This was going to be able the 2nd stimulus that Democrats in Congress are thinking about. They are trying to figure out how you can save all those people who bought houses they couldn’t afford. Punishing you to benefit them. But I am too upset to write about that. What happened to our great nation? I know there is a lot of wealth envy out there (that is media and politician induced by the way, so if you hate rich people because they’re rich then you are a sheep), but I don’t envy them at all. That poor top 1% is paying a huge sum of money to the people that are forcing them (with threat of imprisonment) to keep paying. They are paying for their own economic slavery, just like you and I… only more so.
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