You shall not covet your neighbor's house, your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's. (Exodus 20:17, Amplified)
The above verse comes to mind when I hear those in Washington, specifically President Obama, bang the class warfare drum. He laments that millionaires and billionaires are not paying their fair share and must sacrifice what they have worked for and earned to bail out the disaster his administration has created. Such statements infuriate me beyond belief.
Before I get lambasted for defending the wealthy, or lest someone think I am monetarily well off let me be clear, I am not monetarily well off, at one time I lived in my car and I have experienced joblessness, and living paycheck to paycheck. However, I grew up in a family where my parents started and owned their own business, my dad still owns this business. I grew up watching my parents work 18 hours a day to ensure their business stayed afloat and they could meet payroll. I have grown to adulthood knowing that the small business my dad still owns has and continues to employee many people, I am also very aware of the amazing amount my dad personally and his business pays in taxes to the various governmental entities that he is required to.
With that cavet out of the way. I have a few simple questions for the President:
1. Mr. President who creates the jobs in the country?
2. Mr. President who invests in this country?
3. Mr. President who lends money in this country?
Washington is perpetuating a culture of covetousness by intimating that the wealthy are not doing enough or they do not sacrifice enough. In the President's mind anyone who earns $200,000 a year is considered wealthy and should pay more and more. This attitude is not only wrong but harmful, it exponentially increases an entitlement mentality, which already pervades this country.
I will emphatically state I have never drawn a paycheck from a poor person, ever. When I was living in my car or unemployed it was not the government that helped me, it was the employer that took a chance on me. When the President plays the class warfare card he is stating that being successful or wealthy or both is somehow evil and wrong and should be punished.
I do find it abhorrent that the tax code allows companies such as General Electric (a company not high on my list of favorite companies) to pay no taxes, however it is not General Electric that is at fault, GE is getting their shareholder the most bang for their investment, it is the US Tax Code that should be reformed. Reforming our convoluted tax code is a worthy project and should be met head on. However, this does not mean that our government has the right to punish those among us, people and corporations who are monetarily successful for the mess Washington, DC has put this country into.
Spreading the wealth, shared sacrifice, and leveling the playing field are government euphemisms that breed jealousy and covetousness. Punishing success is not the answer to putting America back on track to prosperity, it never was.
The above verse comes to mind when I hear those in Washington, specifically President Obama, bang the class warfare drum. He laments that millionaires and billionaires are not paying their fair share and must sacrifice what they have worked for and earned to bail out the disaster his administration has created. Such statements infuriate me beyond belief.
Before I get lambasted for defending the wealthy, or lest someone think I am monetarily well off let me be clear, I am not monetarily well off, at one time I lived in my car and I have experienced joblessness, and living paycheck to paycheck. However, I grew up in a family where my parents started and owned their own business, my dad still owns this business. I grew up watching my parents work 18 hours a day to ensure their business stayed afloat and they could meet payroll. I have grown to adulthood knowing that the small business my dad still owns has and continues to employee many people, I am also very aware of the amazing amount my dad personally and his business pays in taxes to the various governmental entities that he is required to.
With that cavet out of the way. I have a few simple questions for the President:
1. Mr. President who creates the jobs in the country?
2. Mr. President who invests in this country?
3. Mr. President who lends money in this country?
Washington is perpetuating a culture of covetousness by intimating that the wealthy are not doing enough or they do not sacrifice enough. In the President's mind anyone who earns $200,000 a year is considered wealthy and should pay more and more. This attitude is not only wrong but harmful, it exponentially increases an entitlement mentality, which already pervades this country.
I will emphatically state I have never drawn a paycheck from a poor person, ever. When I was living in my car or unemployed it was not the government that helped me, it was the employer that took a chance on me. When the President plays the class warfare card he is stating that being successful or wealthy or both is somehow evil and wrong and should be punished.
I do find it abhorrent that the tax code allows companies such as General Electric (a company not high on my list of favorite companies) to pay no taxes, however it is not General Electric that is at fault, GE is getting their shareholder the most bang for their investment, it is the US Tax Code that should be reformed. Reforming our convoluted tax code is a worthy project and should be met head on. However, this does not mean that our government has the right to punish those among us, people and corporations who are monetarily successful for the mess Washington, DC has put this country into.
Spreading the wealth, shared sacrifice, and leveling the playing field are government euphemisms that breed jealousy and covetousness. Punishing success is not the answer to putting America back on track to prosperity, it never was.
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