The Logical Fallacy

We hear often, as a common tactic from the left, the assertion to whenever someone questions social programs, big government or taxes, "yeah well, you sure love your social security" and "free health!" and so on.

Here's the problem I have with this.

Those are all mandatory programs. People never really had a say in the matter. If a person joined or voted for such programs free of coercion and decided to get "freebies" then the objection is justified.

Alas, this is simply not the case.

You can't opt out of government programs. And besides, people paid into it so obviously it's their right to get it. So if that someone wonders if something like medicare or social security (in whatever forms they take in many nations) need to be reformed, it's valid.

Like I complained recently on my driver registration. Included in the price is an outrageous $30 fee for public transit. How public transit managed to get itself involved in my driving registration paper is beyond me to comprehend. I don't use it and never plan to. I can't opt out because, you know, fuck you we say so. And it's for the children. La societe.

Bunch of bunk.

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Let's talk money.

They say it's a "revenue" problem when it comes to government shortfalls. Ergo, we need to tax!

But it's not really a revenue problem if you have cash flow.

Let me explain. The American and Canadian governments collect a lot of money through taxes. In the U.S., for example it's close to $3 trillion. That's a lot of dough to run a country. Yet, the national debt is $16 trillion or more than five times revenues.

So basically, what taxists want is to match $16 trillion. Or the entire GDP of the country.

See the illogical position of this?

No. It's a spending problem just like any household budget. A family that refuses to curb household expenditures will keep the game going by maxing any form of credit they can find - typically lines of credits, credit cards and remortgaging. But if you keep spending more than you have, you eventually get swamped by the interest charges on the money borrowed.

That's the problem with national governments.

Tax all you want. 'Soak the rich' but the wise among us know that's not the issue. There's not enough people to soak to keep the charade going.

So, politicians just play kick the can down the road while playing populist politics that divide people to distract.

Then - POOF! - default and bankruptcy.