A wise use of taxpayer money
An April 23rd Toledo Blade editorial praised the recent passing by Congress and signing by the president of the new “National Service Bill.” I am so glad our elected leaders are making such responsible use of our tax money. We are really getting a bargain here. For the measly sum of just $5.7 billion we will see an additional 175,000 “volunteers” a year for 8 whole years. Please do the math. These new “volunteer” members of AmeriCorps will only cost the American TaxPayers a little over $4 million dollars each. I wonder where all that money is going. The “volunteers” sure aren’t getting paid that much. The “volunteers are doing things like mentoring children, cleaning up parks and weatherizing the homes of the poor. There should not be a whole lot of overhead in these programs. I wonder how many new “civil servant” government jobs this program is going to create to oversee the “volunteers”, decide on what projects are appropriate, do the paper work generated by the program, interface with other volunteer organizations and state and local governments and the many other tasks needed for the government to make sure the program is run according to the rules. These civil servant employees will make much more than the volunteers along with the benefits of governmental employment. This is a perfect example of an effective government program.
Taxes and Democrats
When are Democrats going to realize businesses really do NOT pay taxes? Taxes, like transportation costs, labor costs and material costs are all calculated into the Cost of Goods Sold. Like all other costs, taxes are passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
While Obama claims to be giving the middle class a tax break, the reality is his increased taxes on business along with his schemes to increase the costs of Carbon Based fuels with the so called Cap and Trade legislation are simply hidden tax increases. These impact the poor and middle classes harder than they do the wealthy. Remember, Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry and his policies are headed that way. The same union members who supported Obama and the Congressional Democrats are going to wonder where their jobs went. While claiming to be for the working man the Democrats continue to pass laws that result in job loss and increased costs to those same working men. Someone once said you can fool some of the people all of the time but you cann’t fool all of the people all of the time. The Democrats are proof that you can fool a lot of people all the time.
When will the rest of America learn from the failure of the left’s policies in California? The only reason California is growing is illigal imigration. The state is loosing its businesses and the productive members of society in droves. Dispite having some of the highest taxes in the nation California has a budget deficate larger than the budget of most states.
