How Much Is Enough? (And Other Problems With Left Wing Policy)
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 01:01PM
Why can't democrats trust their own constituents to do the right thing? Their first response to every problem is to institutionalize it with more government, typically as far up the legislative food chain as possible. That means as far away from you as they can manage, even to the point of giving control to unelected bureaucrats you can't punish, just to keep you from messing with it. They entrench it in a bureaucracy, make it impossibly inefficient and expensive and then refuse to let anyone touch it ever again, while charging you more and more to maintain it.
The only reason I can think of for that kind of knee jerk behavior is that Democrats use themselves as the template for the rest of us. The left by their very nature must be selfish, insecure, inconsiderate and un-trusting. Only people so un-giving of themselves or simply incapable of volunteering their time and energy would have to mandate volunteerism and "giving" by legalizing the taking of other peoples time or property through mandates.
Taxation is a legalized theft with no limit; Ask Mark Fernald, the current titular class-warfare mouthpiece of the left in New Hampshire, how much property he needs the state to confiscate to end the class warfare he wages? What are the terms of peace Mark, or are they terms of surrender? Every month you go on and on with your class warfare but tell us, how long and how much? At what point is government large enough to solve all the problems you imagine it must confront?
Once we have passed your tax on the well-off, and scared all the job creators away, what then? (do we plan to insist that they wont leave if you make it too expensive for them to live and do business here, or are you going to make it illegal for them to take their wealth and jobs someplace else?) If they leave, and they will because everyone has a breaking point, who then will create the jobs and provide the income for you to tax to keep your promise; to keep the state from having to abandon its bloated "obligation" to students, the old and the mentally ill, and every other victim class that you have conscripted for your war of guilt?
Mark Fernald has no idea. No democrat does. Just ask them, how much is enough? They have no clue. They cannot answer the question because they don't really care about education, the elderly or the mentally ill. No democrat does. They have no plan other than to make you feel guilty, to use guilt to raise taxes, to grow government, and when government fails to paint the rosy picture they promised to blame someone else and insist they can solve it with even more government. (and more taxes.)
That's their entire game plan. It's all they've got.
But government cannot promise an endless stream of support for more and more--the model is unsustainable. Just look at states that have tried? They are falling apart. Despite what we can plainly see before us, New Hampshire Democrats would rather jump start the failed state class war, lie about the known outcome, and milk the cow to death. They will promise you something for nothing, but they are only growing the numbers of dependents to be left in the lurch when the cow drops dead, instead of allowing people to struggle just a little to create enough wealth on their own to get by--to embrace their individual rights and responsibilities; to earn property of their own; to care for themselves so that they will have the resources to decide who among the truly needy they can best serve.
But the left-wing/Fernald plan cannot survive in the face of people who learn to care for themselves and their own first, people who do not need to rely on the government. So his plan is to use class warfare and the pall of left wing guilt to appeal to human weakness; you know you have better things to do, let the government take care of it for you. You won't even have to pay for it. We'll tax someone else.
This is the entire platform of the New Hampshire democrat party in a nutshell. You sit back. We'll take care of it. You won't even have to pay. But that never works. Government never gets smaller with democrats in charge. It never stops trying to do more. It never gets less expensive. And it eventually collapses under its own weight leaving everyone in the lurch.
You can choose to believe it wont happen this time, but you'd be lying to yourself. The science, the math, the history is unforgiving. If you engage in class warfare against the wealthy, the investment class, the job creators, they will eventually take their wealth, those taxes, those jobs, and that investment someplace else and leave the democrats and government with the check, which will then be paid for by whomever is left. If there is no money--and with less investment and jobs and more government mouths to feed there will be less money--that many more will be abandoned by the penniless all caring government of the left.
The only solvent future is a small government that makes it easier for a free and prosperous people, secure in their rights to themselves and their property, to look into their hearts, and do the right thing for their families and their communities. These are the places people flock to. These are the communities and states that attract jobs and wealth and every kind of prosperity.
The kind of place Fernald, Sullivan and the NH democrats envision is a slope to dependency, mediocrity, and depravity, and they have no problem guilting you into helping them lead us there, and demagoging any and every effort to return the money and power back to you, the people of the State who earned it.
Ultimately it all comes down to this. Democrats are incapable of accepting the idea of individual rights and personal property, two things that are intertwined and inseparable.
Property rights are a foundation of freedom and of prosperity. If democrats believe you have no individual right to your legally earned and owned property, that you are only entitled to whatever property they do not need to take for the purposes of their ever expanding government, then you have no rights but the ones they allow you to have. That means you have no rights at all. No state or nation run this way has ever prospered.
So ask the democrats, any democrat, to show you one that has? Ask them how their plan will be different from the failed states of Michigan, or New York, or California? Ask them how they intend to "tax the rich" yet keep them here to invest and create jobs and growth? Ask them who will create jobs in their absence and how will we pay for them? Ask them, how much tax money is enough? Ask them who they will tax when there are no "rich" to tax?
They have no idea. Ask them anyway. Be relentless. They will call you names. They will change the subject. They will try to paint you as a racist, sexist, misogynist, ageist, Tea-bagging, anti-Obama, Birther, hater of insert name here. They will do everything but answer the question. Keep asking them anyway. Make them look inside themselves to explain why they do not trust people. Why do they need someone else to do the right thing for them and how much will we have to pay to relieve their guilt?
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Reader Comments (3)
Great Article. I'm particularly interested in the doings of Mark Fernald, MR. Social Justice.
Mark Fernald lives in Sharon NH a completely closed off community of wealthy people! They have no Low Income Housing, no Workforce Housing, no Elderly Housing. They rely on Peterborough for many of their municipal services and they continuously whine about being over charged, though when compared to what the taxpayers in Peterborough pay for the same service they are getting a steal!
Why you wonder, because they lobby hard, and use their wealth as a weapon against the groups in Peterborough beating out a better deal for themselves, social justice be damned and Fernald is a leader of this group of "Rich People" getting municipal services off the backs of the poorer folks in Peterborough!
Check out the editorial (my version of a blog because I run the joint) Social Justice Ends At Mark Fernald’s Wallet!
http://www.nhinsider.com/nhi-editorials/2011/3/18/social-justice-ends-at-mark-fernalds-wallet.html
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Bob DeMaura
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I find a certain the irony certain and have concluded that there are some so well off that some degree of self-loathing must come into play especially where they beat the constant drums of class warfare...But honestly, I don't think rich liberals lose any sleep personally over the plight of the middle class....And justifiably so...because in their minds its the government's job to take care of them...why else would all the self-loathing manifest in the class warfare mantra of theft by government proxy?