26 APR 2010, Monday

• This is all pretty simple...why doesn't government see it?
• In inflation adjusted dollars (so it is an apples to apples comparison), look at the spending trend in government at all levels.  Remember this as you think about the tax hikes passed in the healthcare bill, the upcoming Bush tax cuts expiration and now the talk of more taxes via a VAT and Cap and Trade.
• It's not that you're taxed too much...it is that we spend too much.  Reduce that and you won't need more taxes.  Simple huh?
• And if we don't reduce spending (which seems to equal borrowing these days) on our own...as adults in government, then the increased interest costs will force us to.  Either that or we will be reduced to a "new feudalism" where we peasants work for the elite and whatever they desire.
• I didn't sign up for that and I don't want my kids and grandkids forced into it either.
• Why is this so difficult?  What am I missing?