Wealth Redistributed

During the Christmas/Hanukkah season we are reminded again of the good that is in various people.  Anonymous givers have been paying off layaway items, paying for things in check-out aisles on behalf of others, and helping out with those that are less fortunate.  It's heartwarming, and it reminds us that America is still a generous nation at its core.

In fact, we don't need laws that mandate the redistribution of wealth.  If the wealthy want to contribute to the needs of others via the government they may voluntarily pay more taxes and higher fees right now.  Nobody is stopping them.  Or, they can give to various charities that deal directly with the most needy in our society.  The middle class make up the backbone of charitable giving in this nation, a fact that is threatened more by Obama's taking more money from these people for himself than any other issue.

This is important to remember the next time you are in a dialogue about the redistribution of wealth.  We are a giving and kind nation.  We acknowledge the poor and needy among us, and do our best to help them out.  However, we despise laziness, entitlement mentalities, and tyrannical, over-reaching government no matter what party or faction controls it.  We love liberty, fairness, equality and peace.  The government cannot help the poor as effectively as the private sector.  So let's strip them of the power to do it.  The government cannot do any more to legislate liberty and freedom.  Instead, they need to repeal taxes and regulations at a record pace.  That would stimulate the economy and do more to help the poor than any action or ideology Obama and his goons could ever propose.

So when you walk past a bell ringer with a bucket, think about how you can help the private sector reach out to those less fortunate.  It is the solution to tyranny.  And it's found in our own hearts.

Comments

[Powerball]

People are confused. They sense something is happening, but they can't put their finger on exactly what it is. They see that their government is failing, the infrastructure is deteriorating, that they are loosing ground, the people they know turnout to be not what they thought of them, the left is pulling them one way the right another, and they are even questioning policies of their local politicians, police, and church.
I have heard people say Rome is burning and America is crashing just like Rome. So, people do have a sense something has gone terribly wrong, but they yet don't see any apocalypse looming on the horizon. They are still out there spending like crazy entrenched in their everyday habits. I too have said we will turn into another Greece if we don't stop spend like we have been.
I have been thinking about all this myself and wondering where we're going when it occurred to me the reason we can't get the pulse of this thing or what has happened to our morality that once we understood and knew from that what was right and what was wrong. the erosion has been going on for a very long time and it is necessary that it happens that way, in a slow style manor, or we, the people, would panic and revolt.
Yes, morality and ethics is leaving us. We are slowly being bled to death of it. Yes, the infrastructure is crumbling; were we're going we wont need nice roads and amenities. Yes, our politicians, police, and ministers are turning away from us in favor of a large federal government of control. Control that will divide and crush the people, making them dependent and slaves of elites. They see what's coming and are preparing a place for themselves.
What the people don't understand, what is hidden from them in the fog is NOT that Rome is burning to ruins.
We are in fact returning to Rome.
Rome, whose population was three-fourths slaves.
Rome, where priests were allowed in the temples to practice their religion as long as they did so along side of Romans and pagan gods.
Rome, where emperors wrote the law and legislated it at their whim without democratic imput from the people.
Rome, where it didn't matter what you knew, but who you knew.
So look again at what is happening around you, to your laws, to your rights of religious freedom, to your equality.
Look into the fog. Rome is not burning. That bright shining city on the hill is not on fire.
It's the new Rome.
That's were we're heading!

[Bobby J.]

Private charity requires volunteers.

Here is the government version. First, a board of 7 would have to agree. Then they would have to collect/confiscate/print the new revenue. Then an office with 10 or more people would have to be established. Then these 10 would have to unionize. Then they would have to agree who would go down to Kmart and pay off the layaway account. Then the 3 of them would have to drive down to Target and pay off the accounts. Then they would get there and they would only enough money to pay off 1/10 of 1 lay away account.

Wake up people.

[Dennis]

Excellent article. That speaks volumes!