The US Does NOT Have a Taxation Problem

Leftists like to spout baseless drivel about how certain demographics do not pay their fair share of the tax burden. This is a typical tool of the Marxists and America haters to foment class and racial unrest. The US does not have a taxation problem. We have a spending problem. The Federal overlords spend way too much of our money, pretending that it is their money to spend. It is not their money; it is our money.

Even as the economy is tanking, the Federal tax-and-spend monsters have recorded record-breaking tax revenues. According to CNSNews,

The federal government hauled in a record $3,835,390,000,000 in total taxes in the first nine months of fiscal 2022 (October through June), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement.

That was up $502,438,730,000—or 15.07 percent—from the then-record $3,332,951,270,000 (in constant June 2022 dollars) that the federal government collected in taxes in the first nine months of fiscal 2021.

CNSNews reported in another article:

According to newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans in 2021 once again spent more on average on taxes than they did on food, clothing and health care combined. [my emphasis]

That’s important enough to repeat: Americans spent more on taxes than food, clothing, and health care combined.

Yet as fast as the government forcibly extracts hard-earned tax dollars from the minions, they spend it even faster.

I have often quipped that the government doesn’t solve any problems ever. They just create problems, and they create more problems trying to fix the problems they caused in the first place. The tanking economy can be laid squarely at the feet of the ruling class (on both sides of the aisle). There is another quip that Republicans like big government, but Democrats like bigger government.

In addition, there is no government program that spends money as effectively or as efficiently as could be done in the private sector. If you have ever worked for or around the government, you know that shameful gobs of waste are normal.  In my personal charitable giving, I won’t give money to causes that are also funded by the government.

The government’s assault on the petroleum industry started the inflation train. The inflation exacerbation act poured on more steam. The Fed, which is an extra-Constitutional body that is paid to meddle with the economy, is further hurting Americans by making loans for land, housing, and business more expensive. Who pays for that? We, the serfs. Businesses don’t pay a dollar of taxes; they pass those taxes onto consumers in the form of higher costs for goods and services – with a healthy processing fee added.

Republicans like Ted Cruz impotently rail against the inflation exacerbation act. Pete Sessions said that “Democrats “made friends with inflation” via their policies, and will be held accountable in November midterms” – but we know that the serfs did not hold the Democrats accountable in the midterms. With the economy, border, military, and public safety in shambles, the serfs continued to vote for more elitist, woke, anti-American policies.

Even the Congressional Budget Office said that the inflation exacerbation act will do nothing to curb inflation and may increase it slightly; however, the bill includes increases in corporate taxes, taxes on petroleum production, and taxes on imported oil. All of those taxes will be passed onto consumers. How can that not increase inflation? In addition, the inflation exacerbation act ads 87,000 new IRS agents. Not 87,000 border agents or 87,000 military.

I will repeat, we do not have a taxation problem with the government stealing a record amount of income from the serfs. So with record tax revenues, what is the logic behind 87,000 additional paramilitary IRS goons?

Congressional Post reported that

The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richard Neal (D-MA) reportedly told a Bloomberg reporter that the party will raise individual and corporate taxes next year if it retains control of the House.

Bloomberg reported that the tax increases could potentially come during a recession and at a time when the nation is still struggling with four-decade-high inflation. Neal said the action would follow the pattern of the Ways and Means Committee proposal in 2021.

So, not only does our federal task masters spend more of our money than we retain, they want to take even more of our income to feather their nests and pursue additional anti-American policies.

Previously, in my article The Federal Government is the Weakest Link, I argued that the budget of the Federal Bureaucracy should be “anti-decimated,” cut by 90%. We need to rein in Federal spending and move power (and money) back to the states where the Constitution says they belong. Friends argue that that is naïve, that it is impossible to shrink the federal bloat. They are probably correct, but I would like to see it happen nonetheless.

I have written that the midterms were the Republicans’ to lose – and they did, with flying colors. They lost because they have not presented a positive plan. Their only platform is more investigations, and “we don’t suck as much as those other guys.” That was all I heard before the election, and they continue the same losers’ tripe since the election. If anything, the Republicans have increased their losing non-message. The Republicans need to provide actionable, tangible, realistic plans to fix the Biden-broken economy, the Biden-created border crisis and the Biden-exacerbated fentanyl crisis, the Leftist-created public safety crisis, and the Biden-created destruction of our once-proud and -feared military.

Mostly, the problems facing the nation were caused by the Federal government and can be solved by getting the Federal government out of them and letting these States deal with the issues. (It flabbergasts me that the Federal government is spending my money to sue Arizona for protecting the border that is clearly, Constitutionally, the Federal government’s responsibility that they refuse to perform!). Cut the Federal bureaucracy and the useless Federal departments and agencies I mentioned in the above-cited article and watch how many problems miraculously evaporate.

We don’t have a taxation problem, despite what the beneficiaries of class and racial unrest want you to believe. We have a spending problem. The Federal budget needs to be slashed and hacked down to the size appropriate to the 10^th Amendment.