What happens when Congress passes a debt limit increase? A group of 535 men and women, most of whom will be dead in 30 years, encumber you to a 30-year mortgage, collateralized by your future tax obligations. Today, that debt is approaching $20 trillion. That’s about $63,000 per person in the United States,enough for a family of four to purchase a pretty nice, golf course home with a pool in Borrego Springs.
That’s real wealth being taken from you. That’s not the cost of your federal government, it’s the cost which exceeds the existing amount of taxation you accept today. Think about this– DC’s profligate spending is costing your family a house you could own, free and clear.
What if you said, “Screw you. I quit!” ?
What if you said, every time Congress wanted to send money to a foreign government which hates you, pay landowners to not farm, intervene in another foreign, civil war, or relieve parents from the obligation of feeding their children…
…”Y’all don’t know WHAT the heck you’re doing. Screw you. I quit” ?
Here’s what would happen: the revenue service would send you a few nice letters for about a year. After a year, the letters would have a more confrontational and threatening tone to them. After a few years, a direct threat to seize your income and assets would be made, followed by legal action which granted them the right to take your property…by force if you resisted. The bank, with whom you’ve had a long-term, voluntary relationship, the county assessor, with whom you play golf a few times a year, and the deputy sheriff, with whom you surf each March to October, would all be compelled to execute the order to take your property and…
…eventually shoot you if you tried to resist.
Do you know how they get away with this? By growing government. A growing government has a vested interest in keeping free Americans at each others’ throats. If you said “Screw You. I Quit”, Republicans would call you unpatriotic, for refusing to give up your Borrego House, so that they could send money to foreign governments, and fight wars for them. Democrats would call you unpatriotic for starving school children and wrecking family farms. A growing government HAS to turn free Americans against one another to get away with this swindle.
Think about this the next time you’re arguing with a Democrat or Republican about the debt limit, spending, the size and role of the federal government, foreign military engagements, etc. In a kleptocracy, citizens must gore all oxen but their own in the political process. When they do so at the ballot box, a growing government rewards them with scraps.
Congress is costing you a darned nice house with its excess spending. Think of all the good YOU could do with that money based upon the values which YOU hold dear, Now, think about how the federal government has to collect that money it wastes from you. How is THAT peaceful?