Most of us have our “causes”. Our favorite charities that get the amount of money we want to give them during the year.
IF we want to give it to them.
We like to do this. It keeps us involved in our favorite things and helps us feel a part of whatever the cause is.
Soldiers Angels? Elephant Sanctuaries? http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/ Church? Amnesty International? ACLU? The Humane Society? Disaster Relief in the world? Spirit of America? Bears in Asia? Meals on Wheels?
The list is long and varied and even more local than above. Then add to the long, long list your children’s education? Grandma’s housekeeper? Mom’s Rent? Brother’s bail? etc etc.
So when raising taxes to “spread the wealth” is mentioned, we may be fine with the idea of “spreading the wealth” but we are not fine with “spreading the wealth” by government choice. Who on earth believes the government knows best? I don’t know anyone who would say that.
Yet somehow Barack Obama who wants to be President thinks that the government is in the best positions to “spread the wealth” around even though his very own choices as to where to “spread his wealth” are not what I would choose.
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.
This is all ok. I don’t believe for a second that Obama “owes” these people anything. What I’m saying is that Obama has clearly chosen to put his wealth into paying off student loans and buying a big house next to Tony Rezko instead of throwing a little towards his loved ones (so said in his book) who are struggling. Instead he wants me to help them. (ok, maybe not me, I’ll be getting a tax “cut” so don’t bother searching my public records) I mean he wants ‘we the people’ to do the helping of his family.
I would rather help out the Therapeutic Riding Center here in town. Who (by the way) is having their annual fundraising drive now in case your math left you with a bit extra you’d like to throw their way!
See. No coercion. No spreading of the wealth through force. No me choosing for you. What country do we live in again?
