Posted on 12/31/2004 12:18:28 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com
As the death toll mounts in the areas hit by Sunday's tsunami in southern Asia, private organizations and individuals are scrambling to send out money and goods to help the victims. Such help may be entirely proper, especially considering that most of those affected by this tragedy are suffering through no fault of their own.
The United States government, however, should not give any money to help the tsunami victims. Why? Because the money is not the government's to give.
Every cent the government spends comes from taxation. Every dollar the government hands out as foreign aid has to be extorted from an American taxpayer first. Year after year, for decades, the government has forced American taxpayers to provide foreign aid to every type of natural or man-made disaster on the face of the earth: from the Marshall Plan to reconstruct a war-ravaged Europe to the $15 billion recently promised to fight AIDS in Africa to the countless amounts spent to help the victims of earthquakes, fires and floods--from South America to Asia. Even the enemies of the United States were given money extorted from American taxpayers: from the billions given away by Clinton to help the starving North Koreans to the billions given away by Bush to help the blood-thirsty Palestinians under Arafat's murderous regime...
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Carolyn
Nobody read this article, it makes too much sense! *BAN!*
They can use my taxes for this.
If I had any say in where our taxes went it would immediately stop going to the palis. Lets stop funding terrorist before we stop helping disaster victims.
OK, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get your point. But you're selfish and cold-hearted SOB, aren't you, Dave?
Geez, I bet this guy's fun on a date.
So if anyone asks if I donated to the relief fund, can I say I gave on April 15th?
Yep, when we say this, we were called Stingy by Commies and Socialists.
But for them, the people's money is the governments.
Here, it's different! THANK GOD!
Puerile (look it up, boys).
Err, nice article in theory perhaps, but seeing as how the U.S. government already spends upwards of $2.5 trillion per year, I'm pretty sure there are more egregious expenses that can be examined than spending $135 million to alleviate one of the most horrible natural disasters of recent times.
If it floats your boat, go for it.
Absolutely correct.
Walter Williams was talking about this on the Mark Davis show this a.m. Gotta agree.
The govt shouldnt be funding the North Koreans, and it's true the govt wastes a lot of taxpayer money, but when a huge disaster like this strikes, it's only right that we lend a helping hand.
They may or may not do the same for us, but we are supposed to be the best nation in the world, and we should help out the little ones when they are in trouble.
Whoops...$350 million, not $135 million. Point still stands.
The Rand and Libertarian folks are a lot like communists: Some think their ideas are attractive on paper. But we don't live on paper.
Good one! Thanks.
Wow, a freeper that calls Davy Crockett an idiot. Congrats.
What is totally amazing is that there will be people who will say...yeah....but we should give to this.
Well, that is what just about everybody says about everything that comes under the sun.
No wonder we have no hope of ever reigning in this behemoth which is the Federal Govenment.
Another Davy Crockett hater. Is this now a liberal board?
Perhaps he's a Jesus Christ lover?
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