It seems that today's youth have been indoctrinated to believe that the more those we allow to lead us to dictate the level at which our "life blood" is drawn from our income as we struggle to maintain a decent standard of living, the more virtuous we should feel. This attitude is somehow more virtuous than the premise upon which this nation was founded and has thrived; the individual is in control and gets to determine how much we will allow our leaders to draw from us to support government.
The longer time moves on the more examples we see of leaders making moves to turn the traditional concept of the government being controlled and answering to the voters on its head. Two cases come to mind which have been in the news this week; Gov. Inslee's "Carbon Tax" initiative and Kshama Sawant's demand for the city of Seattle to impose a "head tax" on businesses.
This trend is dangerous in that it will ultimately lead to the destructiveness of the capitalistic economic model our nation used to become the world leader under. We eventually will become another among the many third world countries if this trend isn't stopped. Did the left in this country under Obama do that good of a job in slapping down my generation of Baby-Boomers back when the Tea Party - formed at the grassroots level across this great country - stood up and told him that we'd been taxed enough in 2011? Perhaps it was the mantra from the Republican Establishment which kept telling us that they needed to win the House, then the Senate, then the White House, in order to get the changes needed done. Oh yea, we know how that's turned out. We delivered for them, and they haven't.
So, are we continuing to press on and not give up, or, have we already given up and left our children and grandchildren to the horrors of self-destructive socialism?
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