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A recent FT/Harris poll shows that many in the world would like to see rich people taxed more and the government cap the salaries of company executives. The people from the richest countries said that they would like the government to sock it to the rich. Of course, those who are not rich tend to get more in the way of government programs so, of course they want to tax the rich. How on Earth could they survive without the redistribution of income? Studies show they pay far less than they consume and that the rich consume far less than they pay so the only way to even things out is to tax the rich to death. One of the problems though, is that people in government have a funny idea of what constitutes rich and people who are well off but in no way rich get taken to the cleaners by the “shire reeve.”

The idea of redistributing wealth for unnecessary items (and a huge part of what the government spends is unnecessary) is just socialism. Each according to his means and redistribution of property so that everyone is the same. All members of Congress are guilty of wasting taxpayer money, there is no doubt about that. The Democrats however, are the ones who live their lives to tax the wealthy and then pass that money out among the serfs who have become indentured to the left. This has been going on for some time and even limp wristed panty waists like Martin O’Malley of Baltimore are getting in on the act with progressive taxes and other economically disastrous schemes designed to give those who do not know how to manage money more of it to give away.

As if it is not bad enough that those surveyed have been subjected to government stupidity for so long that they think it is good to screw the rich, now they are saying they want the government to decide how private businesses should run. The government does not belong sticking its nose in the business of business. It is up to private companies as to how much they pay their employees including those at the very top who receive a lot of money. I happen to think some of the sums are obscene but it is none of my business unless I hold stock in those companies because the stockholder is who the company answers to. Government should not decide how much a CEO or any other employee gets paid (including the other end with regard to the minimum wage).

I think it is obscene that men get paid millions of dollars to hit, throw, and catch a ball but that is up to the people who own the team to decide. I do not go to any baseball games because I do not want to pay a fortune for entertainment so some spoiled ballplayer can earn more in a year than I will in a lifetime, but that is MY choice. It is not the government’s to tell me what to support or to tell private companies how much they may pay their employees. When the government gets mixed up in telling private businesses how to run, we are one step closer to the Socialism the ACLU and Left would love to see take over this country.

There is a problem in the world and it is not the fact that some people are rich. The problem is that so many people have been enticed to feed at the teat of government that we have entire classes of people who have no ability to take care of themselves and they have no desire or motivation to do so. Europe has been this way for a while as Socialism becomes more and more pronounced and people pay more in taxes to feed the insatiable appetite of those who have become addicted to hand outs from their friendly elected officials.

The US is well on the way there thanks to past Democratic administrations that fostered the environment of welfare and bred classes of people unable to fend for or take care of themselves. Hurricane Katrina brought this ugly truth to light when people stood in knee deep water looking around for the government to come swooping in to save them instead of getting the hell out of the water. People did not have the ability to get out of town because they figured the government would care for them. They were let down when their Mayor felt the same way. He figured he did not have to get people out with the 500 buses because the federal government would swoop in and bring the Greyhound buses he demanded. A total failure of the welfare class by those who allowed it to fester to the boil it is today.

We need fewer taxes and we need government to let business run without interference. This is how an economy will grow and how people can become wealthier. It is time to scrap the government and start fresh, a do over, if you will.

We can change government by getting rid of every incumbent in 2008. Vote them all out of office and start over.

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