Posted by
PulgaBucky on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:03:55 AM
My Dear Representatives,
On the cusp of voting for this new budget, please take to heart what I have to say. I know I am not alone in my sentiments, I only feel completely invisible. See me. Hear me. I am an intelligent, productive, capable, voter and taxpayer, abused by a government that spends money with abandon. To add insult to injury, I’m a middle-aged mom and remember who knows best.
The amount of spending coming from Washington is the rape of every taxpayer who unwillingly parts with their income in the form of taxes. I use the term rape specifically because my federal government repeatedly seizes my very hard earned money, by force, in order to support a behemoth, corrupt bureaucracy that, at its best, is ineffective and, at its worst, malevolent. You keep telling me that there is a free lunch, only I keep on getting stuck with the tab while, simultaneously, losing ever more individual liberties. Not to mention, I'm paying 5-star prices for a boxed lunch!
Stop it now. I don't want to be an economic slave to a system where those who receive benefits at no cost have the same vote as those who pay their taxes, lose economic freedom, and receive little benefit from it. As any 12-year old could tell you, it isn't fair!
Break my bonds of economic slavery! I am telling you, as a tax-paying citizen, I am a slave to your whims. Stop it now. This is somebody's mother speaking. This spending is wrong. Only you have the power, as the elected representatives from our Republic, to make a difference. Stop spending without considering the fiduciary responsibility you have to the taxpayers forcibly making this investment. It’s our money, not yours, not the guy's who bought a house he couldn't afford, not the banker's who made risky loans, not the legislature's who voted for idiotic legislation that set this whole thing into motion, not the government’s. It's ours, the real working class - those individuals who actually earned their income as the fruits of their labors.
As a mother, I repeatedly tell my children very specific things I perceive as universal truths to living a good and fruitful life. One of the basics; “If it isn’t yours, don’t take it.” Just as my daughter’s last, savory, chocolate chip cookie is not the domain of her ravenous cousin who quickly gobbled his, my paycheck is not there to pay for programs I am not remotely interested in funding or companies I would never freely invest in.
My money is not yours, or anyone else’s. It’s mine. I earned every cent through the open and fair trade of my labor for monetary compensation. I’ve worked late into the evening and over weekends to attain what I have. I’ve created a life for my family, both immediate and extended, that will hopefully keep them safe and cared for long past my death.
I did this with my husband. We work together as a team and have slowly, over decades, built a nest egg for our retirement and for the care of our special needs child, only to witness its dwindling away due to Washington’s imprudence. Shame on all of you for punishing those who have taken care of themselves instead of holding foolish individuals and organizations accountable for their own actions. You are rewarding the grasshopper, not the ant. Aesop was a wise teacher. Heed his words.
Like my nephew who mindlessly snarfed down his cookies, keep your hands to yourself and definitely keep them out of my wallet. If it isn’t yours, don’t take it! Do you get it yet? Threatening me with imprisonment for not complying with immoral and unjust tax laws is theft in my world. Stop steeling from me. Reduce all spending now, before we've saddled our children with a debt burden they will never be able to pay off.