Originally, people helped people personally and locally. The government was suggested as a way to accomplish some of that, so it did. Through gradual encroachment, the government took over more and more of the individual’s responsibility, until the individual’s responsibility was primarily only for the individual and nobody else – taxes and government employees took care of things. Next, the government started to alleviate people from being responsible for themselves i.e. welfare, food stamps (SNAP), Medicare, Medicaid, government “public” schools, and a plethora of other government agencies.

Of course, all of this gets very expensive. For every $4 of tax revenue, $1 actually gets to the needy person, and the other $3 go to bureaucrats who drag their feet and do stupid things making the whole thing more and more expensive. In order to cover these incredibly expensive inefficiencies, the central banksters print lots of money. This makes the money worth less (worthless) adding to the dilemma, but it slows down the government’s decline in capabilities and ultimately slows the exposure of the criminal banksters fiat money.

The last this writer read, 70% of every earned dollar goes to taxes. Of course the government and the bought and paid for politicians and media stooges will deny this. They will tell you that figure is more like 35%. That number is on the surface. It does not include the cost of regulations which are estimated at about $3.079 trillion a year. It does not include inflation, a hidden tax, which, depending upon whom you believe, is anywhere from 3% a year up to 22% a year. It doesn’t reflect government corruption like when the Defense Department announced $2.3 Trillion for which they could not account. It also ignores the national debt which will never be paid, and bankruptcy if a 100% tax! There are other aspects to the cost of living in a socialist society that are not listed here.

The program includes a “good cop, bad cop” scenario in which the media pundits and politicians haggle back and forth between government restraint (Constitutional limits) and massive government largess (unconstitutional Socialism), and somehow, the largess always wins out, and the rest is idle chatter to make people who care about America to feel warm and fuzzy for a while and to think that their leaders actually care! It’s like watching a ping pong or tennis match – your head turns to the left, the right, the left and back again and again, and again. Tired yet?

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