Comments on: Welfare, housing: Clinton pragmatism still ignored by CA’s dim paleo Dems

By: Donkey

Donkey — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:12:32 +0000

All of the bureaucracies of government are filled with RAGWUS feeders seeking ways to spend other peoples wealth through taxation/confiscation.

You have the LE side that uses fines or asset forfeiture, the building and planning bureaucracy that tells you what how you can use your property how, what, where, when you can build, but takes no responsibility for the finished product.

What is all comes down to is that if the state, county, or city is not getting their cut then a dozen costume clad state armed praetorians are going to show up at your residence, putting the life of anyone at the residence in danger. 🙂

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:11:07 +0000

Just MHO, but it is a good one, a place to start, and before Teddy “The Dork” Steals rags on it with his one liner, throw away, antagonistic comments, I CHALLENGE the Idiot Teddy Steals to post a better plan, better solution, better path for the poor and middle class (who are currently being killed by government taxes to support the Teddy Steals workfare guys/gals).

OK Teddy, no garbage comments, post up a BETTER solution. Heck post up anything of merit. My bet is we will see another dumb, no substance, “Teddy Knows It All” post, the kind Teddy Steals is so famous (infamous) for 🙂

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:05:57 +0000

Rule No. 1 was that throwing money at problems didn’t have a great history after a quarter-century of Great Society domestic liberalism. If this wasn’t working to solve a problem, try another approach.
YES! Try a different approach. Rex’s approach to is simple. Government social programs, while meaning well by those who develop, implement and support them, are almost ALWAYS an unmitigated disaster b/c the government simply cannot run them efficiently or cost effectively (nor can government run anything else efficiently or cost effectively for that matter (oh dear Lord, please kill the BB gun train)). And that is where the problem lies IMO.

My solution is pretty simple, keep GOV OUT of these programs, but give the poor and lower middle class a way to get ahead, on THEIR OWN, and that would be to not tax them. No income tax below $15K ($15K is an arbitrary number I cam up with, might be too high, but a start), NO SALES TAX which is by far the MOST REGRESSIVE tax there is, the one that harms the poor the MOST ad the tax that is ALWAYS THE GO-TO TAX for politicians-without regard to the harm it causes the poor. American citizens would MUCH RATHER HAVE A JOB and EARN their OWN WAY, than having to rely on government welfare and workfare, where they become DEPENDANT on the government, when they don’t want or need to (although government employees LOVE their “workfare” job, always in a non-competitive and closed market where their wages arer 3-20 times market).