ALL government spending is a tax increase, the taxes always hit the middle class hardest. The only question is when and how the new taxes will be extracted from your wallet. Right now, you're paying through inflation, and you ain't seen nothing yet.
It's remarkably easy to trick people into forgetting that nothing is "free." It's a lesson we all learn as children, but politicians manipulate adults into forgetting it. Intelligent people become gullible fools when the offer of Free Stuff comes from political hucksters.
The big swindle of the past few decades was tricking people into thinking Big Gov could provide oceans of Free Stuff forever by simply racking up the national debt. Nothing has to be "paid for!" We'll just print more money, maybe punch out some trillion-dollar platinum coins.
Of course, the Big Spenders were always going to turn on their gullible marks eventually and announce the gigantic deficits they accumulated must now be repaid with tax increases. "So sorry, really hate to do it but it would be irresponsible not to raise your taxes."
But long before those titanic bills were handed to you and your children by politicians who fattened themselves to Baron Harkonnen levels on deficit spending, inflation was bound to kick in. It's a way of taxing the middle class to death with no fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Madcap government spending and insane deficits don't make anything "free," not even in the short term. They simply create the most inefficient, wasteful, corruption-prone system imaginable for shoving assets and resources around. Lies and illusions become our real currency.
Deficit-fueled Free Stuff giveaways are bleeding all the VALUE out of our economy, as illustrated by the declining value of our currency. So much value is simply stolen by the political class, as you can see from trillion-dollar "infrastructure" schemes that don't build anything.
One way or the other, we in the Middle Class pay for EVERYTHING, eventually. Socialist "giveaways" and "entitlement" for us just mean giving us pennies in value today and stealing dollars from us tomorrow, by hook or by crook - direct taxes, indirect taxes, inflation.
For all the ignorant sneering lefties did about "trickle-down economics" over the past 40 years, it's really THEIR socialist system that's based on trickle-down mechanics: trickle-down theft and taxation. The trickle is becoming an avalanche under Biden's policies.
The best way to allocate scarce resources and labor is for profit-seeking, risk-taking private actors compete for them. The absolute worst way is for politicians to "give them away" and figure out how to pay for them later, possibly decades later.
These deficit blowouts and Free Stuff schemes are all about trickery and deception, lying to people about what things are really worth, creating elaborate payment schemes that keep us all in the dark about who pays for what and how much anything REALLY costs.
Of COURSE politicians like it that way. Socialist schemes give them endless opportunity to leech money from the rest of us, pay off their friends, and get filthy rich without contributing anything of value themselves. Parasites thrive in the murkiest of economic waters.
One way or the other, you will pay to make the politicians rich and powerful, my middle-class friends. Taxes and regulatory burdens on business are passed down to you. Today's Free Stuff deficits become tomorrow's tax hikes. Printing money sucks your blood through inflation.
And you'll never be asked to "consent" to any of it. You'll never be honestly told what the real costs are. The parasites will look you right in the eye and chirp: "It costs zero! It's all FREE!" You won't be allowed to say no when it starts coming out of your wallet. /end
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