Two subjects, tax cuts for the wealthy and universal health care appear regularly in letters to editors of the various newspapers across the land. The themes in the letters produced by the liberal mind never vary from letter to letter, no matter where they live. It is as though they are all reading from the same scripted message. In fact, they are, and it is leading the loss of this nation’s freedom and liberty to the bitter end of full-blown socialism.  Though this was written more than a year ago, the facts are more apparent as each day, week and month becomes history.

                                             Part I-Tax Cuts

That the Marxist doctrine is alive and well is demonstrated by a line from a letter published in the June 25, 2006, Herald Times Online Edition, Bloomington, Indiana.  (Written by Victor Katz, Bloomington) It is thusly: Republicans at all levels of government trumpet the virtues of the super rich, and are happy to hand over increasing amounts of money to the vastly wealthy through massive tax cuts. He idiotically says to the effect that the Democrats would stop such thievery and make more money available to the needy and as a result, the other nations would be friendlier to us since we wouldn’t be spending the money on fighting wars. Ignore the Republicans and concentrate on “to hand over increasing amounts of money to the vastly wealthy through massive tax cuts.” One of the tenets of communism is that the government should control the wealth so that no one can be rich and be able to deprive the masses what is rightfully theirs to possess.

The lack of understanding of economics and human behavior by the writer is appalling. He believes that monies earned are rightfully the government’s money, and that taxes are the means of ensuring that the earners can’t keep what is actually and rightfully theirs. He espouses the doctrine of Marx that private ownership of anything is bad and that those who have and keep resources amounts to an exploitation of the down trodden. The odd and illogical reasoning doesn’t take into account the fact that tax cuts aren’t giving back to the taxpayer anything that isn’t his or hers in the first place. It is only right that those who pay should receive the benefit.

Those of the Katz persuasion are spouting the doctrine of “from those with the most ability to those with the greatest need.” What will the people of the Katz ideology do when the government begins to look at them as having the most ability? Of course, that won’t happen because the rich are keeping everyone else from having wealth, and it is common knowledge that the “rich” have routinely deprived the masses from gaining any wealth. Those who so believe have a choice. Remain “poor”, whine and complain about life and how bad it is that others are doing better and continue the free ride of the increasing size of the welfare state or be industrious, work, save, invest, become richer or maybe wealthy, and then be required to pay exorbitant taxes to give others a free ride, being penalized by the same system they espouse at present. The choice is theirs to make.

More and more people are adhering to the Marxist doctrine and apparently don’t know it or are so envious and greedy they don’t care. That so many hold such an ideology is an indictment, not only of the public school’s failure to teach the truth about our form of government (a republic), but also of the pandering of power hungry politicians who promise more government aid to the (ignorant) greedy masses. A nation can’t long survive when those who are the productive are forced to support the ones who insist, demand, and lobby for the government (politicians) to give them part of the earnings of those who have worked and sweated to make the nation and the nation’s economy the most viable forces in the world.

One question needs to be answered by Mr. Katz and all of those that hold his beliefs. How have those who have worked, saved, invested, and made their own way in spite of confiscatory taxation, kept anyone from having more and enjoying a better economic life?

In Sorting It Out, those who demand more from the government are relegating themselves to a life of servitude to politicians who are no better than the ones looking to them for help.

06-25-2006 DEC

                                 Next Week Part II Universal Health Insurance