No Free Lunch

When government actions result in lost income or the promise of lost income, that is a tax.  So the left wing meme that there have been no taxes on Americans in the age of Obama is a lie.  The government doubled the money supply diluting the value of existing wages and savings at the very real risk of inflation.  That is a conscious act of government that devalues your labor and reduces your buying power.  This acts as a tax on labor and as a tax on the cost of living which would not otherwise exist without the consent of your government. 

The spending of the past year has exceeded any that preceded it in history.  That spending comes with the burden of the debt and the service on that debt.  These costs are real and must be met, and to do so will require American’s to give up more and more of their earnings.  That is a massive multi-generational tax on every worker and middle class family at the consent of your representatives.  It cannot be paid for with rhetoric about class warfare, or by passing costs off some imagined bugbear constructed by the left wing--there is no taxation in a vacuum; these costs will find their way to the wallets of every American in one form or another. 

Obama and the democrats have expanded the government.  Someone has to pay all those thousands of new government employees that didn’t exist before January 2009.  The cost of their wages, benefits, cars, air fare, junkets and seminars, hotels, offices, and supplies must be paid every years for as long as they are given some job to do.  That cost is a tax on Americans.  And every raise or benefit increase is another tax, all courtesy of Mr. Obama, Carol Shea Porter, Paul Hodes, Judd Gregg (where he did not vote no) and Jeanne Shaheen. 

And the Obama tax rebate is not a tax cut, it’s a rebate.  No tax was reduced, only dollars handed out.  It’s a bribe, not unlike the one George Bush handed out, and the congress approved willingly, which also did nothing for the economy.  But the best part is that this bribe is still taxable.  And it was—to paraphrase Mr. Obama—never paid for.  But it will be just like all the other hidden taxes from 2009.     

So as we move toward November we can expect the democrat incumbents to promote their tax cutting credentials.  Your job is to challenge them and ask them to explain the trillions in spending, to report to you the cost of the debt service on that spending, (and feel free to correct them because they will lie) and to then ask who will pay for it and why that is not in fact a tax. 

Health care (more spending) can’t pay for it.  Cap and Trade won’t pay for it.  The rich will never be rich enough to pay for it.  Big business can’t pay for it.  But as the government tries to make them pay some of it, you will be the one who is ultimately taxed for it, and at some point, directly. 

There is no free lunch.  So feel free to make them pay for that at the ballot box come November.