More taxes? Like kid in a candy store

On Tuesday, Feb. 24 - or Fat Tuesday, if you will - the Daily Herald had a "need for more taxes" story printed on virtually every page by virtually every branch of government. Page 1 is "GOP open to gas tax hike?" Sure, go ahead politicians, raise the tax on gas to the point we cannot get to work by car anymore because the wages we are supposed to be getting have not increased to stay up with your wages and taxes. You seem to need all of this tax money from those who cannot afford to give it to you in order to make us more self-sufficient and thus come out of this greed-caused recession. Now I ask you, what part of this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? The part about you helping us or the part about you using the money to make more jobs or the part about how this will help us rise up and smite the recession-making programs you put into play some years ago that force us to pay with the money from our unemployed and overtaxed populations' hard work and sacrifice?

It seems to me that to give you a total of $25 billion to use and spend on programs you control is kind of like asking a very young person to manage a candy store. The wages you pay out might be good but the outcome would be a money-losing situation in the long run. Hellooooo we have done that before and you ask for more again. Something is not right in this proposition. We seem to have seen it all before and it did not work then either. You ask us to conserve and we do and then you raise taxes because we do not spend enough. Well which one are we supposed to do? Spend more or conserve more? You cannot have it both ways and right now spending more is out of the question because we are not working because of unemployment and job availability. Your fault again, you sent them overseas for cheaper wages and products so now our people cannot get jobs to pay for your taxes. Gee how does that work again?

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802 that "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

He also said "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

I would say Thomas Jefferson knew in 1802 what you would do to us if given the chance and you have proven him correct AGAIN.

Rodney Erb

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