I always find it ridiculous when legislators and their fawning press go on these rants about how they need to have the "freedom" to raise our taxes. The latest is all the anti-Grover Norquist rage and calls for Republicans to denounce him in the continuing wake of Mitt Romney's shocking loss. ABC News contributor Matt Dowd was among the most recent, in which he said that Norquist was an "impediment to good government" and
went for the cheap shot that ATR's leader only had the redeeming virtue of being named after a Sesame Street character. (I still don't know what it is with these liberals and their irrational fixation on Sesame Street.)
In
my column at TWTC I explained this is symptomatic of the moral mutation (and social decline) of America's values: today we as American citizens are just reduced to being tax sources, not human beings. The idea inside the Beltway though they would never admit it is essentially one of "You're not here to live and enjoy life, you're here to pay the bills for your government!" We are now officially living in the Twilight Zone's "Obsolete Man" episode where we all serve the state.
Anyways,
read my column:
For nearly three centuries, private citizens and small business
owners in America have treated proposals for tax increases with contempt. The
American Revolution began with people enraged over far less tax hikes than what
the current regime inside the Beltway is proposing to avert the so-called
fiscal cliff. Yet today, a evil ideological shift is occurring in our country:
while fighting taxes was once considered the most patriotic thing a person
could do, today the political-media complex has successfully perverted
America’s two parties into believing that we can tax and spend our way to
reform.
Today, if you
dare
to think that the purpose of life is to grow up, thrive, work in a profession
that pleases you and enjoy the fruits of your labor with your family, you are
considered a dangerous extremist, a heretic and an
obsolete man. If we
think like our elected members of Congress, the
real purpose of human life is to ensure positive revenues for the
government and its bond selling apparatus.
The worst part of this saga of American decline is that a
growing number of Republicans, from elected members of Congress to armchair
admiral trolls that haunt online social media have attempted to place Mitt
Romney’s defeat on the head of Norquist, suggesting that if the Republican
Party had been more aggressive in its pursuit of taxation and entitlement
spending, Romney might have won.
God forbid that Republicans should be made to keep their
promises, or that members of Congress should actually honor commitments made
during their campaigns!
Let me say this: if the only way that Republicans can win a
presidential is to advocate shaking change out of pockets, compelling people to
subscribe to crummy government services and supporting higher levels of
government spending at the expense of future generations, then America is no
longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Where exactly does the tax and spend mentality end? Thanks
to inflation, we no longer have a stable currency, which means that the cost of
everything will increase uniformly
every year. Will our members of Congress and local legislators really vote to
raise taxes every year? Where does this end? If no one holds the line and says
“no new taxes, no new spending” what will become of the American taxpayer? Are
we really just government-owned creatures to be farmed and taxed?
What does it say when the Great Experiment in freedom, a
nation that once bravely rebelled against colonial taxation, is now the world’s
leading advocate for big government and theft of income?
America is collapsing around us and we are seeing a moral
mutation of our values and our way of life. There is a cancer on this country
and it is growing every day. People like Grover Norquist are the last shout of
conscience and his Taxpayer Protection Pledge is an important reminder of what
our responsibilities should be to one another.
Let us not join the ash heap of history of imploded empires,
fallen republics and destroyed democracies. America needs all the voices of
wisdom and courage it can get right now, and to be sure, Grover Norquist leads
the way to real reform.
