Communities, through churches and other local organizations, need to begin relying on themselves to help one another, because the unsustainable system we are now living under will eventually end
This article is not at all, as some might think, about a process of removing all support to the needy people of this nation, rather it speaks about a way to turn this nation into a nation of charitable people who are willing to go out of their way to help a neighbor in distress, and not relying on an inept bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.
“The rich paying their fair share” is a popular phrase among some these days. But to a federal government addicted to overspending, it is simply another “fix.” And as taxes go higher, businesses become less profitable and either have to raise the prices of their goods or find ways to avoid paying those higher taxes.
An example is how businesses have left, and are leaving, states such as New York and California, where taxes are higher, to go to states like Arizona and Texas that put less of a tax burden on them. In other words, the more taxes are increased, the more the revenue collected from those being taxed begins to decline. When the goose is killed, the golden eggs stop being produced!
This points out the false concept that says wealthy people don’t deserve the money they have and it belongs to those that don’t have it. The reason this is a false concept is that wealth is created. Money in the hands of poor people is simply spent while money in the hands of businesses and individual entrepreneurs goes to making more money and creating jobs, providing more opportunities for those needing an income source.
The entitlement system is based on an unsustainable model and therefore needs to be abolished. Cities, neighborhoods and private institutions need to begin immediately to create the alternative to the big government entitlement system and thereby eventually put it out of business.
Trillions of dollars under the control of a few people in Washington, D.C. is a dangerous thing. That much concentration of wealth, even if it can be sustained by massive levels of debt, will necessarily be misused by some or all of those controlling it.
The big government advocate who so often poses as a champion of “the people” is doing the exact thing that will make the people even more powerless!
I am working not only to see that the people have limited government interference in their lives, but that the massive, centralized, Byzantine system that we rely on to help sick and needy people is replaced by local decentralized methods of helping those around us.
Communities, through churches and other local organizations, need to begin relying on themselves to help one another, because the unsustainable system we are now living under will eventually end. If it is not brought to an end by American patriots wrestling the behemoth to the ground, it will be end in much the same way as a freight train full of loaded boxcars going off the tracks into a ravine, smashing into pieces with tragic results.
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
