Each and every time a Democrat opens his or her mouth, he or she proposes new social services spending and higher taxation. It’s fact. Democrats need your money so they can redistribute it and buy votes, which will keep them in power. Look at how Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama propose new spending at every campaign stop.
On tonight’s showing of “60 Minutes”, there was a story about the impending disaster that will take place in the coming decades as a result of an aging population coupled with generous Social Security and Medicare benefits. The United States will not be able to pay for the benefits foolishly promised to the elderly.
So what do we do? Democrats want us to raise taxes, which will guarantee them eternal power. But one thing the Democrats never do, probably because they lack the intelligence to ponder such matters, is talk about the economic harm that comes from increases in taxation. (If Democrats had brains they wouldn’t be Democrats!)
How does raising taxes create jobs? How does taking the money away from a wealthy person who would otherwise invest it in productive activity create jobs? How does reducing the rate of return from investment by taxing it away stimulate investment? How does taking money out of the pockets of families create jobs?
Taking money out of our consumer-driven economy by raising taxes doesn’t create jobs. It kills jobs.
Think about it: if a family has $5,000 of discretionary income that they can save or spend per year, and the Democrats come along and their raise taxes by $1,000, that is a thousand dollars less the family has to spend on restaurants, recreational activities, vacations, household items, etcetera. The waitress who would otherwise get a tip won’t, the restaurant owner won’t get the business, the family won’t stay at a motel for a few days on a family get-away… It’s simple logic, right? Yet it escapes the vast majority of Democrat voters.
Not only do Democrat tax increases result in less spending and, hence, less jobs, it results in less saving for retirement, which makes people even more dependent on the government! Every policy the Democrats have is designed to push the nation closer to socialism and make the populace more dependent on the Democratic Party.
We need to look at the elderly and decide what we can and cannot afford to spend on a no-longer productive segment of society before we bankrupt the nation.
Everybody dies, right? You, me, and everyone we know and love will die one day. Nobody lives forever. It seems very foolish to me to spend $50,000 for open-heart surgery on a 77-year-old man when, statistically, he could drop dead at any moment. It seems like a total waste to spend $100,000 per year to keep an elderly Parkinson’s patient alive in a nursing home by hooking him up to a feeding tube, making him a prisoner in his own bed, when he would otherwise be out of his misery. Wouldn’t that money be better spent on the youth? If it is to be spent at all, that is, instead of allowing the people who earn that money to keep it.
The former principal of the high school I attended died several months ago. The obituary article in the paper mentioned how he died of complications from heart surgery. He was 77-years-old. How many college kids could have been put through college for the amount of money spent on that 77-year-old man’s heart surgery–which he didn’t live to benefit from? Even if he had lived, odds are he would have been dead in a few years anyway.
How many college kids could be put through college every year on the $500 billion America spends on Medicare alone? The youth are the future, right? Today’s youth are the ones who will make life better for those who come after us, right? So why is America devoting so much resources on the past?
In no way, shape, or form am I anti-elderly. I like senior citizens. Most of them are very nice people with history and wisdom to share. But that doesn’t change the fact that they have a foot in the grave and spending tens-of-thousands of dollars on them to keep them alive for a few more months or years is a complete waste of limited resources that would be better allocated to the youth.
People tell me that when I get old, I’ll look to the government to take care of me. That isn’t true. I’ve been in nursing homes, I’ve seen my grandparents slowly waste away until they died. I’d prefer to die a quick death than linger and be a burden to anyone–including taxpayers.