-Caveat Lector-
It is our right,
and it is our duty,
to remain free.
--- Alan Keyes
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 04
1999
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Why Clinton won't cut taxes
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� 1999 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
The only reason we may have achieved a balanced budget is because it sneaked
up on the obsessive-compulsive spenders in Washington D.C. They simply did
not see it coming. President Ronald Reagan predicted we would grow our way
out of budgetary deficits, but liberals did not believe him.
No one is more surprised than Bill Clinton. There is no way he would have
allowed this to happen if he had not been caught off-guard.
But he is quickly moving to rectify what liberals view as a repulsive, nigh
unforgivable mistake: allowing revenues to overtake spending. His goal is to
eliminate even the possibility of a surplus, not only for the next fiscal
year, but for years to come. He will do this by launching new programs,
making new spending commitments, and adding new entitlements.
The reaction of liberals to the idea of a tax cut has been most revealing.
They are deeply offended by the noxious thought that, perhaps, maybe, a
fourth of the "surplus" should be returned to the people who actually earned
the money and who are being seriously overcharged for government services
rendered.
In various rants over the past few weeks, Bill Clinton said that Republicans
would "squander the surplus on a short-sighted, irresponsible, over-large
tax plan." He was just getting warmed up. He said tax refunds would force
"huge cuts in education, agriculture, the environment, defense, biomedical
research ... indeed, everything we are doing to strengthen our country. ...
It would cause us to revert to the dark old days of huge deficits, high
interest rates, low economic growth and stagnation." He said that the
proposed reduction in taxation discriminates against women and endangers the
future of our children.
This overheated rhetoric soars high above the routine lying we have come to
expect from political hacks, even this one. It is a frothy and hysterical
overreaction that transcends the demagogic and suggests the pathological.
One might well have a policy difference over taxes, but to prophesize
Armageddon, the end of the world as we know it, if taxes are cut, reflects
either an inner world of delusions or an operative view of Americans as
gullible dupes and simpletons.
It has been said before and bears repeating: If an infinite number of
Democrats sat before an infinite number of word processors for an infinite
period of time, sooner or later, one of them would type out the sentence, "A
budget may be balanced by reducing spending."
However, nothing would change. I simply postulate they would type out the
message. I am not prepared to say they would understand what they had
written, no matter what infinities are assumed.
It must be conceded that this impairment might be the result of some sort of
chemical imbalance -- or some genetic misfortune. For this reason, perhaps
we should not be too quick to judge. Perhaps we should simply remove these
hapless people from the temptations for which they have no biological
defenses.
Whatever the reason, nurture or nature, it is an established fact that
liberals are addictively drawn to every expansion of government power, every
new tax, every piece of pork, every boondoggle, every new program, every old
program and every pay raise and new amenity for themselves, their clients
and their cronies.
To be fair, there is another way of explaining the aversion of liberals to
any reduction in taxes and spending. Think of the government as a business,
with millions of employees who equate big government with job security and
benefits. The goal of this business, as with any business, is to increase
revenues and expand the customer base. Taxes are viewed as revenues, the
higher the better; those who depend on government are customers, the more
the merrier. Spending is considered an investment.
Naturally, advertising is important to support the business. Those who
produce wealth must be made to feel guilty for their success and less
inclined to protest when it is taken from them; and those who receive
government benefits and favors must be made to feel that they have a right
to the fruit off someone else's tree. And everyone must be convinced that
the constitutional limitations on the size and power of government are
old-fashioned and outmoded.
It takes a lot of creative, brain-bending advertising to induce these
mindsets.
However, when the propaganda is successful, the scam systematically proceeds
with its massive "redistribution of wealth," not as is commonly believed,
from one citizen to another, but from all citizens to the government.
Liberals are wannabe elites in a socialist America. Once they get us to a
point where the majority of citizens are parasitically attached to big
government programs and largess, all will be lost. We will no longer be able
to correct the government and change course via the ballot box.
We are almost there.
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WorldNetDaily contributor Linda Bowles is a nationally syndicated columnist.
She and her husband, Warren, have one daughter, Michelle, and live on a
ranch situated on the western slope of the California Sierras.
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man."
--Thomas Jefferson*
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights;
that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
--Declaration of Independence as originally written by
Thomas Jefferson,
1776. Papers, 1:315
*The famous quotation is from a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush of September 23,
1800. ME 10:173
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