Liberal Thinking

I'm an avid listener of sports radio stations. My favorite host on Sports Radio 1130 WDFN, Sean Baligian, brought up the possibility of the State of Michigan implementing a new tax on tickets for such things as sporting events and concerts. Sean was rightfully outraged, as were all of the callers.

Then I just received an email from a conservative friend living in the liberal/socialist haven of California. The email was a humorous, fictitious story about how big government is.

Whenever a new tax is proposed a group of citizens starts calling radio stations and elected officials' offices, sending emails and faxes, and so on, in protest. What never seems to happen is enough people speaking up and stating clearly why their state or national economy is in the shape it is. Some people will not say it out of guilt. Others will not say anything because they are the benefactors of what all of our taxes are paying for.

We have done nothing but create a welfare state for millions of people in the United States. We don't need the government to tell us what is best for our lives and I'm so sick of the fact that there are millions of people in this country who want them to. Listen to candidates for public office when they speak, regardless of what political party they are affiliated with. All they talk about is what they're going to do for us, what they're going to give us, etc. Enough is enough. I'm so flustered and angry that I can barely put my thoughts down right now.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is heralded as this great president who brought us through World War II and the Great Depression. The man was a good leader. But do you realize what his New Deal programs started? Government dependency! The government fed people. The government employed people. Was anyone naive enough to think that was only going to be temporary?

Folks, the taxes we pay are outrageous. The solution was real simple a long time ago but now we're so far in over our heads that we can't go back. If government, state and federal, wasn't so large then we wouldn't be paying so many taxes. Government programs are killing us financially! There's no excuse that someone who makes $75,000 a year only receives a little over $50,000 of it. Then that person pays sales tax, property tax, and every other tax that exists. We can't even buy a ticket to a baseball game without paying service charges and taxes on top of the ticket price.

That's liberalism, people! I don't care if you're Democrat, Republican, or independent. Liberal thinking has been destroying this country for many years and it's now spiraled out of control. The more programs that the citizens ask the government to create, the more we are going to get taxed. It's that plain and simple. You can be a "bleeding heart" and want to help out your fellow man as much as possible, but be prepared to pay for it.