Morals

Cause: People keep posting this as their status on Facebook

Homeless go without eating. The elderly go w/o medicine. The mentally ill go without treatment. Troops go without proper equipment. Veterans go without benefits that were promised to them. Yet we give billions in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2% of Americans, those who already own half...of everything and need it not at all. If you think this is profoundly wrong, will you re-post this message as your status update?

Effect: This is my Facebook response to that

These statuses people put up about 2% getting tax breaks, fail to realize how all of these problems got started. When you get the government to run so many programs designed for welfare, they become so tax dependent that none of us are paying the amount that would really need to be paid. But when you let the government, not specialists, in running a program to benefit hundreds of millions, it is doomed to fail.

Yet we expect it to be run like a well-oiled business machine. This isn't possible. Businesses know their budget and can make cuts easily or attain capital more readily than a group of people whose political lives depend on pleasing their constituents.

This is a fundamental flaw in people's thinking of how a government should operate. We are rolling in debt from foreign countries, all of our income tax goes to paying off that interest, and the government is running one of the largest deficits in US history.


When something becomes "too big to fail", there are always two different oppositional sides. It has come down to classes. Would we be looking at this situation the same if the top 2% earned only $100,000 a year? Or $40,000? Yes, you would be.


In the sense of stealing others property you will obey that principle, that some have more than others and it is the governments to take. Have you questioned: how did they come upon such means? Was it from stealing from others? Or was it from using the minds? To provide us with the goods and services the VAST majority of us love so much.


This government has become so bloated that we are down to making decisions that our human nature pushes us to avoid moral principles that we live our lives by. And when we sacrifice just a little bit of those principles, we lose everything. We lose the right to say, "Well I don't make much, and this is my property. Who are you to determine whether you can take it from me and give to those I don't know, I don't trust, I don't consider good."

But it's too late. You've already let the government take from those who you believed had too many. And soon it may come down to you, once we have drained the top 2 and make our way down the percentages.


Oh...this could never happen? That's what they said in the 1940s with the New Deal. That's what they said in Johnson's term, and then we saw how terrible this sacrificing of the principle was in Carter's. But we didn't learn did we? Now we see it again. And you can take the top 2% money, but in thirty forty years, my fellow generation, and this vicious government cycle has continued, it will be our turn to be legally plundered.


I don't think that the 2% should be getting tax breaks because the entire tax code needs to be changed. And so, I don't agree with any of the people with those statuses, because I'm operating on a different principle. While you operate on the idea of legalized plunder that knows no bounds because it doesn't operate on principles. Foundations.