Quote of the Day: August 4, 2009

Today’s quote comes from the man who was somehow elected President, Barack Obama.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

We all know this is a lie, they’ll tax for healthcare reform. Bailouts, Cash For Clunkers and all of these other wasteful programs do nothing but levy more taxes onto the people who can least afford them through the hidden inflation tax. It’s not a secret that the cost are coming back around to those 95% of working families. The funny thing about the quote though, is not the lie that is told, but it’s the fallacy of the last part of it. No one wants to raise taxes, hell most of the taxes the people pay should be done away with. But you can’t continue to drastically increase the size of government, create new departments, appoint “Czars” to oversee everything, run an empire and continue to spend like crazy without raising taxes. They’re trying to pass off something for nothing, and most people can see through it. Look at the debt already, you can’t increase spending and try and do all these different programs while lowering taxes, because where the hell do you get the money to pay for it? You borrow it or just print it, either way it’s piling on more debt and further screwing the people (those people who they claim to be helping in particular)… the opposite of what you want to be doing “in an economy like this”, but that’s something Keynesians just don’t understand.

Quote of the Day: August 3, 2009

Today’s quote comes from the late US Senator and former Republican nominee for President, Barry Goldwater.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

It’s quite sad that in a country founded on freedom and limited government, where the people once opposed even a standing army during times of peace, so many of our fellow Americans believe that it is the duty of the government to give them everything. Somehow, everyone became entitled to everything and they expect someone to give it to them. You hear it a lot today especially with liberals who think healthcare is a right and that the government should provide it for them. Well no one likes an Indian giver, so why then would you want the government to give you anything? Welfare and entitlements that drive up the debt with insane spending and taxes does not equal good government.  There’s a quote that has been attributed to a lot of people, from Thomas Paine to Henry David Thoreau , and that is “that government is best which governs least”. And that’s a true statement; the less the incompetent people in Washington do, the better off we’ll all be and we’d enjoy much greater freedom.

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

Saw this video on The Humble Libertarian blog, thought it was excellent.