We Could Be In Very Bad Trouble
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Ronald Reagan told us that government isn’t the solution – government is the problem. Then, by implementing his policies of empowering the private sector and getting government out of the way, the longest period of prosperity our economy has know was started. Those who seek to have government keep us under their control have come to power at the state and national level. In spite of the outcome of how their policies have proven – we read these types of assertions that doing more of what has harmed us would be a great idea…if only the minority party would roll over and go along with the further destruction of what remains of our economy.
Here in the state which has climbed into first place as having the most unemployed persons, we hardly ever hear about how the Democratic party, using their majority status in the last session of the legislature passed an increase in the taxes which charge business enterprises on the basis of their payroll. The same party is quite interested in further damaging the business climate of the state by further expanding the tax burden on whatever business might still be capable of opening their doors for business on a daily basis.
When you read the draft proposal “Envisioning Nevada’s Future – Goals & Strategies for Advancing Our Quality of Life”, written by the hired consultants of Moody’s Analytics for consideration by Nevada’s Vision Stakeholder group – you will find a central theme of how much more government should be put in place. We can’t afford the state government we already have – the policies of having too much government have already given us terrible consequences – and the vision for our future should be to get more?
This quest for further expansion of government’s reach is fueled by several elements:
First, you have the politicians who have successfully acquired their power by instilling the belief that they can help by taking from those who have resources and redistributing those resources to those who haven’t got (playing the blame game of class war fare, they vilify those who have earned what they have and encourage those who haven’t to believe they are entitled to get what isn’t theirs).
Secondly, you have those who are getting the redistributed resources of others supporting the politicians who give them their handouts, clamoring for more as it is their right to have. In some cases they have been convinced that they are victims of those who have and in other cases they simply have needs which are satisfied by the government handing out what has been taken from those who have.
Lastly, there is a general acceptance of the myth that government is capable of making the economy work better through the redistribution process. Never mind that the actual practice of this policy approach has proven to be a failure – we should simply and blindly accept either that things would have been worse if government hadn’t carried out the uncontrolled spending made possible through further tax increases…or we should consider that if government could have just been allowed to do more of the same, that little bit extra would have or could accomplish what hasn’t been achieved yet.
Unless the November elections demonstrate that the majority of those voting have come to understand that going further down the wrong road is a mistake, un-electing those who have been in charge of making things worse – we could be in very bad trouble!
Ronald Reagan told us that government isn’t the solution – government is the problem. Then, by implementing his policies of empowering the private sector and getting government out of the way, the longest period of prosperity our economy has know was started. Those who seek to have government keep us under their control have come to power at the state and national level. In spite of the outcome of how their policies have proven – we read these types of assertions that doing more of what has harmed us would be a great idea…if only the minority party would roll over and go along with the further destruction of what remains of our economy.
Here in the state which has climbed into first place as having the most unemployed persons, we hardly ever hear about how the Democratic party, using their majority status in the last session of the legislature passed an increase in the taxes which charge business enterprises on the basis of their payroll. The same party is quite interested in further damaging the business climate of the state by further expanding the tax burden on whatever business might still be capable of opening their doors for business on a daily basis.
When you read the draft proposal “Envisioning Nevada’s Future – Goals & Strategies for Advancing Our Quality of Life”, written by the hired consultants of Moody’s Analytics for consideration by Nevada’s Vision Stakeholder group – you will find a central theme of how much more government should be put in place. We can’t afford the state government we already have – the policies of having too much government have already given us terrible consequences – and the vision for our future should be to get more?
This quest for further expansion of government’s reach is fueled by several elements:
First, you have the politicians who have successfully acquired their power by instilling the belief that they can help by taking from those who have resources and redistributing those resources to those who haven’t got (playing the blame game of class war fare, they vilify those who have earned what they have and encourage those who haven’t to believe they are entitled to get what isn’t theirs).
Secondly, you have those who are getting the redistributed resources of others supporting the politicians who give them their handouts, clamoring for more as it is their right to have. In some cases they have been convinced that they are victims of those who have and in other cases they simply have needs which are satisfied by the government handing out what has been taken from those who have.
Lastly, there is a general acceptance of the myth that government is capable of making the economy work better through the redistribution process. Never mind that the actual practice of this policy approach has proven to be a failure – we should simply and blindly accept either that things would have been worse if government hadn’t carried out the uncontrolled spending made possible through further tax increases…or we should consider that if government could have just been allowed to do more of the same, that little bit extra would have or could accomplish what hasn’t been achieved yet.
Unless the November elections demonstrate that the majority of those voting have come to understand that going further down the wrong road is a mistake, un-electing those who have been in charge of making things worse – we could be in very bad trouble!
Posted by Doug Busselman at 9/6/2010 8:34 AM 
Categories: Economy
Tags: Nevada Budget 2010 Election Taxes Government Spending Government
Categories: Economy
Tags: Nevada Budget 2010 Election Taxes Government Spending Government
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