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Government wasn’t designed to be an enormous charity

This is in response to “Ryan budget fails the test“written by two local Catholic women, whose thought processes are entirely missing many important facts and principles.

(1) Before any other rights can be exercised, a nation must exist, which requires a large portion of the budget to go towards defense. The only exceptions are smaller countries (such as Canada) that rely on bigger ones (such as the U.S.) to protect them.

(2) In order to have the least amount of poverty and suffering, you must have a healthy productive economy with full employment.

(3) To continue spending money we do not have will make us like Greece, i.e. 25 percent unemployment and universal misery.

(4) Our debt is totally unsustainable, and the ONLY reason so many politicians deny this is so they can continue pandering to various segments of the population by promising them endless benefits.

(5) President Obama is perfectly aware that eliminating the “Bush tax cuts” for the wealthy will make only a miniscule dent in the deficit, but he will never admit it because doing so would undermine his (successful) class warfare strategy.

(6) Today’s tax rates are at historical lows because globalization has completely changed the rules. Any country with rates that are out of the mainstream will automatically lose jobs to a more tax-friendly nation, all other things being equal.

(7) Congress is legally required to come up with a budget every year, but has failed for three years in a row because they have not had the backbone for it. So Paul Ryan has the guts to come up with one, and proving the point, he is made out to be some kind of ogre.

(8) Many wealthy people who could afford to pay more taxes object on the grounds that it will only promote the continued growth of an insatiable and wasteful government that creates a new problem for each one it tries to solve. For instance, there is plenty of blame to go around for the housing crisis, but it all started with the government’s laudable goal of expanding home ownership to lower income people, which required lenders to throw out time tested rules of common sense.

(9) The constitution does not require the government to become an enormous charity, partly because our forefathers knew what a giant mess it would create.

(10) If everyone was as voluntarily generous as Mitt Romney, there would be no such thing as poverty in the United States.

David Burridge

Lakeside Park, Ky.

Posted in: business, economy, election 2012, government, Greater Cincinnati, healthcare, National, Northern Kentucky, Ohio, Politics, taxes

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