When You Cut Taxes, Who Does It "Cost"?

I'll be honest with you ... I am somewhat fed up with these political types - and the media people who echo them - fed up with all these people who say a tax cut is going to "cost" thus-or-so zillion dollars. And I've got to ask: "Cost who?"

What the tax-cut critics are saying, of course, is if we lower the amount of money being taken from we taxpayers, it will "cost" the government some of the income the government is now receiving. It never seems to dawn on liberals, either in the political arena or the media, that the taxes paid by we taxpayers is a It never seems to dawn on liberals, either in the political arena or the media, that the taxes paid by we taxpayers is a real "cost" to us, and further that every dollar taken out of a citizen's pocket is a drag on the economy. Only if you look at government as the most important thing in your life can you consider a tax cut as a "cost". On the other side, if you believe in the freedom of each individual to earn and spend his own money, then high taxes "cost" the taxpayer.

While we're at it, when you read that the Governor (or some other government officeholder) "gave" Hall County big dollars ... that is YOUR tax money they are throwing around. And when you learn that one of your favorite organizations has received a "grant", how about asking if that grant came from private sources or was it a "taxpayer grant." If an elected officeholder is going to give taxpayer money to somebody, it seems to me the least we can do is give the taxpayer credit for the gift and not the officeholder.

I think it is time we remind people in government that the only money the government has was FIRST taken from hard-working citizens, and that this welfare state mentality that insists it is okay and proper to take money from one citizen and give it to another is out of hand.

This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.