Pasadena Politics

Not creep as in some shady character but creep as in encroching, sneaking, preparing to jump on you kind of creep.    This last year, we had “revenue problems” in California.  Mind you, the issue was really a spending problem, but Legislatures cannot call it a spending problem when they count on that spending to keep the interests that spend money on them to stay in office happy.   After all, what a better way to show you care about a ‘group’ – especially a ‘disenfranchised group’ than by spending other people’s money on them?    No leading by example, just a little Robin Hood action.

Of course, populism, collectivism, and the preying upon the emotional jealousies of the poor may appear to be a great way to get elected, but in the end it only produces oligarcy, resentment, civil strife, bloated government, and more and more poor.    Regan’s Trickle Down Economics – derided by Bush Sr. as Voodoo Economics, is still preferable to anything Liberals/Progressives can devise.    After all, it takes money to make money and who better to invest their wealth than those who had the wisdom and intelligence to create it to begin with?    It may seem nice to redistribute wealth through taxation but such redistributions do to generate income for their target audience.    The net effect is the stagnation of the generation of wealth which would have otherwise gone to improving the lives of those now receiving government aide or hand-outs.

Indeed, government redistribution of wealth is the surest form of crippling one’s economy and society.

Anyways, back on track:

The new form of Tax creep appears to be the internet.  With States like California who seem to think the problem is a revenue problem rather than their lavish spending on anything but essentials is it no small wonder Congress, who is overseeing a blooming increase in government spending to rival the History and Future of the USA, is eying the taxation of the Internet?   Oh, it will certainly start small.   But we all know how government, once the foot is in the door, invites itself in for dinner, your checkbook, bed and then breakfast before casting you from your own home under the rubric that you have more than someone else and should feel guilty over it.

If you don’t want to increase government’s impact on your life, now might be a good time to take a stand against increasing taxation – if you have not started already.  Talk to your Representatives – State and Federal.   Let them know you are opposed to further increases in government’s increasing it’s purse even as your’s grows smaller or stretches thinner.