The HAVES and the HAVE NOTS

The HAVES and the HAVE NOTS was Originally Posted on April 18, 2012 by lavarock

Rarely do I delve into politics. This post deos that.

Years ago I was in charge of supplying security reports to my coworkers, who needed to fix them. These coworkers would get a report with perhaps thousands of errors and be overwhelmed with the work. How could they fix thousands of errors quickly?

In reality, I was unable to get through to them how to attack the problem. I told them that many errors were the same error and making a small change could eliminate many errors.

Without getting too technical, assume a hotel with one door into it. Imagine inside the hotel, many rooms each with a door. Imagine that inside the hotel, there is not an issue with people going from one room to another and causing problems, just the threat from outside the hotel.

Now imagine hiring a security firm to check the hotel. Their lengthly reports show that each room has no lock on the door. They also report that the front door to the hotel has no lock.

If you didn’t know any bettter, you would be ordering locks for each room AND the front door, when all you really needed to do as address the front door issue. Once locked, the inside doors are not an issue. One fix can solve many issues.

This is not unlike what we are considering when we talk about the massive cost of our gevernment. We have massive bills to pay and not enough money. We have a choice to do one of three things; raise more money, spend less or both.

In the above example it appears that a small change would make a world of difference in the outcome. I don’t think this works for finances of our country.

The Democrats would like to tax the millionaires (the “HAVES”). Why? Well, they have the money and can “afford it”. Whether they SHOULD afford it or not is an important question. It is a quick and easy thing to do, but weeks later, we still have the same problem. We continue to spend and run up debt.

It is easy to pick a few thousand out of our population and charge them. But why? Well an important reason is that the majority of those not in the millionaire category cannot afford to be taxed more. Why tax most everyone else when you can single out a few “evil” millionaires and make them pay for all the inequality in the world. If the majority of the public had their taxes raised, there would be more politicians thrown out of office. What difference does the lack of a few thousand votes cost vrs half of the rest of the population.

We spend millions of hours each year doing taxes, trying to save some money. We fight lawyers and politicians who make and enforce the rules. Did you know that government pensions pay out earlier than your and mine do? Did you realize that although your state gets earmarks to help do things, that the government filters all that money from you to them and back? I ask people, name some efficient government agencies. Go ahead, start thinking. Think of all the waste. It starts with pride. We take great pride in our Capitol. Ever wonder what is costs to heat that damn thing? How many stories is that dome? Heat travels up. You may say, that is not a big expense, yet it is another nail in the coffin of our costs and ability to pay it back.

Califonia is proposing to NOT continue to get reports on what the slaughter rate on Australian Kangaroos is. REALLY? How long have they needed that info and why?

The Jones Act (Merchant Marines Act of 1920) is another example. Look it up. Cruise ships between the Hawaiian Islands, if not on a US flagged ship, must go thousands of miles south each cruise to touch a foreign port. HUH? That is still being enforced.

Getting rid of silly or unuseable laws can make things simpler and start to save us money; but we won’t do that.

These are simple examples and won’t solve our crisis. We don’t look int othe thousands of things to cut costs, becaues some want to just rais more money and patch a flawed system.

We want to take the easy way and tax millionaires. I say come up with a flat tax, a sales tax that taxes everyone equally. Get rid of the IRS as it stands. In 2010 they had 106,000 employees to count your money! All for an act that was passed over a century and a half ago. The Revenue Act of 1862 was passed as an emergency and temporary war-time tax during the Civil War! With those IRS people will go lots of tax consultants, tax offices, froms, paperwork and deductions. With that will also go many of those loopholes people are so worried about.

If you don’t know by now, once a law is passed that brings in money, it expands and almost never goes away. Look at cigarette taxes. look at gasoline taxes. Look at all the Federal, state and local taxes and tax offices and you know why we are being taxes to death. We can clean this whole mess up without taxing one class of citizen. We are all responsible and should pay our fair share and not force some to accept all the burdeon.

The American idea is that we should be able to start a business, enjoy our life, make money and I suggest all without the government touching every part of every thing we do.

Our country was created with the idea that all men are created equally. They are just not taxed equally, and I suggest they should be.