By Dennis Brent Melby
They’re raising taxes…again!
When times are good, employment is strong, wages are comfortable and inflation is low - Democrats raise
taxes.
- “It’s a good time” they say, “Folks can afford it and we have a need to help others” they say.
When times are bad, if government employees are laid off, inflation is at Biden levels- Democrats raise taxes.
- “There’s a real need!” they say, “So many folks need help, and we’ll only tax the well-off folks (who can afford to move).” We’ll make it progressive.
Tax and spend, tax and spend, and tax some more!
- Tax your home
- Tax your electricity
- Tax your energy
- Tax your property
- Tax your income
- ...make plastic bags illegal and then tax paper bags
- Yes, they once even tried to tax the rain!
Maybe there’s another way. Maybe others have better ideas. If there are fewer kids going to school maybe we don’t need as many teachers, and high paid administrators, and support staff, and lawyers to defend the Board of Education from stupid decisions. Maybe cut School Resource Officers…no wait…they've already done that on anti-cop grounds, not to help the budget.
Maybe we stop telling Federal workers who’ve been laid off to help balance the budget that we’re the employer of last resort – come on over – we’ll pay you ‘cause we hate Trump and get votes that way too. You know, they don’t really fear the wrath of the voters – they assume they’ll simply vote Democrat always, no matter what.
...and maybe we don't raise taxes to give morepublic money to pay for all the Democrats campaigns...while making sure the Republican candidates can't use it.
This year we can stop that cycle. Look at the Republicans running for Council. Great business people, who want to tackle the beast of one party rule, one party overspending and fear of being the one not re-elected.
We have so much to gain, so little to lose, and experience true diversity of leadership, ideas, answers to public service and diversity in political leadership. And that’s a good thing.
All it takes is one vote, we can do it, let’s get on a better path to prosperity, security and good government.
Do you think we need higher taxes or a tighter belt? Any ideas, comments, solutions? Tell me at [email protected].