When was the last time you heard anyone complain that taxes are “too low”?
Not recently?
Well, isn’t it amazing that there are not many more people complaining that taxes are “too high” — obviously as a result of too much governmental spending?
In fact, even as the federal government is spending more than a trillion dollars a year beyond what high federal taxes are taking in — and as many people, states and local governments are feeling financial pinches during a time of general economic recession — there are some officials who amazingly want to increase government spending, and increase taxes, defying financial reality.
At the end of a little story in the newspaper recently, there was the interesting note that homeowners in New Jersey (which likes to be called “the Garden State”) on average pay the highest property taxes in our country, $7,045!
What a “garden”! Do you suspect that in New Jersey there might be some spending “weeds” that might be pulled up to make the garden more appealing?
Shouldn’t that question be asked in all states — and particularly about the federal government, which is guilty of the most irresponsible spending, taxing and increasing of the debt?
Isn’t it interesting that there are many more proposals for more government spending than there are proposals to cut even nonessential, low-priority spending, to balance budgets — and cut taxes?
Remember, ours is supposed to be “government of, by and for the people,” isn’t it? So who rules? Don’t “we”?
So why do we permit the things we do?