Progressive Economics: How Do You Get More Money? You Take It!

by Tina Grazier

I don’t know about you but it seems to me that the only method progressives understand for making or getting money is to take it from others. Additional words and methods that apply would be to steal, to confiscate, to tax, to assess a fee or fine…to devise new methods under the law for separating people from their money.

Likewise the only method or concept for investment that progressives understand is the redistribution in the form of welfare and the government grant. I can’t think of a single policy or program that progressives have designed, touted, or implemented that doesn’t depend on taking money from others for redistribution. In the private world this concept is called theft.

Progressives do not understand, or do not care, that of our government has become Mr. Big…the guy in the neighborhood that everyone must “contribute to” or get his legs broken. Government does not produce wealth or financial security. It produces massive debt and a constant need for more cash. The public is treated like a hamster trapped on a wheel; we run and run and yet we do not get anywhere. Progressives have convinced people that the rich are responsible. This is a ruse. The rich invest in businesses that create wealth and offer opportunity to others. The rich also pay the largest portion of federal taxes. Mr. Big Government sits in front of a massive DC banquet. Mr. Big government is living large, handing out peanuts, wasting massive amounts of money and creating debt that surpasses the economy…we owe more than the country can produce.

Everyone understands that government requires a certain amount of money for the defense of the nation, for the court system, and to support leadership and maintenance of government structures. What we have failed to fully realize over the decades is that everything else can be accomplished more effectively and efficiently outside of government.

Do you have any idea how big the federal government has become? Go here and here for information.

Over the weekend the Cyprus government froze all bank accounts in their banking system in anticipation of a vote to assess a tax, “6.75 percent on all bank deposits under (EURO)100,000 ($131,000) and 9.9 percent over that amount,” to “save the country from bankruptcy”. This is what out of control spending leads to…the actual theft of money out of the peoples accounts to pay for the irresponsible mismanagement of the people’s money!

God help us to educate the people of this great republic lest we follow in the footsteps of Greece!