By Neal Boortz
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Sit down. I’m truly sorry about this, but we really need
to take another trip into the dark recesses of the liberal mind. A dangerous
journey to a world where it is greedy to want to keep your own money, but not
to covet the money or property of others; a world where earning 17% of the
income, but paying 38% of the income taxes means you’re not paying your fair
share; a world where any expression of disagreement with any utterance, no
matter how ignorant, from the mouth of someone-not-white makes you a racist.
We have to do this because you really do need to
understand the extent of mindless irrationality that liberals present to us as
a “thinking process”.
Our liberal du jour here is one Jennifer Brooks. She’s a
member of some crowd called the Corporation for Enterprise Development. Look
them up. It seems that their goal in life is to enrich the poor and the middle
class at the expense of those who have been more responsible with their lives.
An opinion piece by Brooks was published in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal
Constitution. Here’s your link, if you need to catch up on your self-abuse
regimen.
Brooks’ piece was titled: “A path to prosperity: allow
more to save.” In her column Brooks says that more than half of Georgia’s
residents don’t have enough money saved up to get them through a rough time.
She thinks that the government needs to do something to help these people save
money. And --- wouldn’t you know it? --- she thinks that the best way to help
these people is to take money away from those who’ve earned it and give it to
them.
Hold on … tunneling a little deeper into the liberal mind
here.
First, the lovely Jennifer suggests that people who
actually go to college, buy a home and save for retirement are able to do so
because they either inherited money or their family supported them. Nowhere –
not one word in her piece – does Brooks acknowledge that perhaps these people
managed to go to college, buy a home and become successful through hard work
and good decision-making. The liberal mind cannot acknowledge that possibility!
These rich people either inherited their money, or some family member paid the
tab! Here Brooks sets the class warfare table. How DARE these people not want
to share their money with the less-fortunate! After all, it’s not like they
worked for it! They inherited all that money! Someone gave it to them!
But then Ms. Brooks gets down to proposing solutions!
Wow! This is starting to get exciting here, isn’t it? Jennifer Brooks to the
rescue!
First idea! Georgia needs a “refundable” state Earned
Income Tax Credit! She says these tax credit help families boost their income –
even those without any tax liability!
Well duhhhhhhh. Of course it helps families boost their
income! When you create a state EITC that simply takes money away from people
who are paying their own way – and their own taxes – and gives it to people who
haven’t worked as hard or as smart, it tends to boost their income! That word –
“refundable” – simply means that you get a fat check from the government
whether you actually pay any taxes or not. Welfare ... money for nothing ...
money forcibly taken from someone else. Simple as that. The federal EITC is the
number-one area for tax fraud! So let’s get the state on the same road!
Ms. Brooks’ second idea is for the state to stop what she
clearly believes is the abusive and asinine policy of denying cash welfare
benefits to people who have more than $1000 in liquid assets. She says that if
these people can’t get their welfare checks they won’t be able to save any money.
Say what? I thought welfare was supposed to be (1)
temporary, and (2) to help people cover the cost of life’s basic necessities.
Now we learn that welfare is for people who simply need to open a savings
account but don’t have the money! This amazing liberal thinks the state should
seize money, by force, from the person who earned it, and then give it to
someone who did not earn it so that they will have some money to save and maybe
buy a house some day. You’ll just have to excuse me for a moment here … I mean
I’m good at filtering through the rhetorical yak squeeze of the left to see
what our proggies friends are up to, but this is really confounding me. Let’s
see … you’re going to take money that I was going to put into my savings and
give it to someone else so that they can put it into their savings. Really?
Ms. Brooks isn’t through with her fantasy raid on your
wealth yet. She wants what she calls “individual Development Account programs.
What’s that? Pretty simple. She wants the state to take even more money from
you to give to other people to match, dollar-for-dollar, whatever they put
aside on their own for a house, to start a business, or to go to college. “Hey!
Government! I’ve saved $4000 for a house here, but I need an $8000 down
payment! Could you please go take that money from someone else and give it to
me so I can get this closing scheduled?” I wonder what Ms. Brooks would think
about giving the person who was forced to make the matching contribution a
share of the eventual equity in that home, of the profits of that business, or
the earnings that come from the college education?
I trust that during the course of this day you will be
able to cleanse your rational mind of the liberal effluent I’ve thrown your
way. Just know this. In the world of the liberal you are not yours. You do not
own yourself, nor do you own the fruits of your labors. The government owns
you. The government will decide how the money you earned is distributed. You
will be allowed to keep enough to keep you happy – to keep you working. The
amount you are allowed to keep will be referred to in Washington as a “tax
expenditure.” The rest of the money you have earned, which will be referred to
as “your fair share,” will be spent to create more and more government
dependency … more and more voters who will be automatically vote for their
liberal benefactor.
OK, the reading’s over. When you get that taste out of
your mouth you can resume normal behavior.
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