The House of Representatives has again decided that the almost 500 billion dollars spent on the military and defense every year isn’t enough. The House has authorized 205 million dollars on joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense projects. So, Mr. or Ms. Taxpayer, its time once again to dig into your pockets and hand over those earnings....oh, wait, that money will never reach your pockets. The U.S. accounted for eighty percent of world defense spending prior to the new authorization, so why throw more money at a problem, Iran, that politicians insist doesn’t exist? As usual, bureaucrats are unanswerable to the citizens they blindly rob.
It is no longer enough to have someone represent you or a district in a politicial circle jerk. The H.O.R. is nothing more than a federal city council meeting that no one attends save for lawmakers.
The way the government sees it, they’re not a detriment to the economy since they have a monopoly on its currency.
We could talk about how that 205 million dollars will be split up, but does it matter when taxes are so out of control that they rarely ever go to programs that benefit any taxpaying Americans? This illustrates democracy’s fatal flaw: that representatives voted into power no longer represent the beliefs and wants held by their constituents.
The federal government will have to reverse its immigration policies if they wish to keep throwing taxpayer money into the wind. Making immigration legal would be very beneficial to a free market, but it would also benefit the government as long as its run like a business. The government doesn’t see an immigrant as a person, it sees the immigrant as another dollar it can tax or another dollar it can give away. However, the immigration policy is so muddled at this point, it likely will never be fixed. Even amongst “small government” conservatives, immigration is something that should remain a process as confusing and frustrating as waiting at the DMV or filing tax returns.
John C. Keyser
May 19, 2007