Now that we as a nation are done with our fight over taxes (the expiration of the Bush tax cuts) with Republicans having capitulated to the Democrats' demands for more revenue, we can lie back, relax, and let the economy recover without further destabilizing government intrusions... HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!... Didn't know this was a humor blog did you?
No, we are now dealing with the imminent federal budget cuts called sequestration. And shock and awe, the Democrats, lead by our dear leader Obama, are saying that any deal to avert the budget cuts must include... Drum roll please... MORE REVENUE! Who would have thunk it? Turns out that the increase in taxes from Obama Care, the increased taxes in the budget deal, and the increased taxes from letting previous payroll tax cuts expire is not enough new revenue for the Democrats. Nope, they want even more tax revenue. And in typical jack ass, I mean donkey (the symbol of the Democratic party; see, it IS a humor blog), behavior, they are leaving the details up to the Republicans. After all, why get your fingerprints on the evidence of yet more theft from the US tax payers? Fortunately, the Republicans have responded to this appropriately by telling the Democrats to come up with their own deal and that new revenues are off the table (a more appropriate response than what I would have told them).
Lets hope that the Republicans have learned their lesson from the Bush tax cut expiration. Lets hope that this time they will stay united as a party and use the sequestration as the bludgeoning tool it was designed to be to force Democrats to come to the table and actually deal with our budget woes. I won't be holding my breath for this. In all likelihood, neither party will get the other to agree to anything, and sequestration budget cuts will occur as planned. At this point, we should be happy if any fiscal discipline occurs at all.
And this leads me to my greater point, the source of the title of this article, namely that it should now be clear to everyone that no amount of new revenue will ever satisfy the appetites of the left. Or, as Margarette Thatcher once famously said: "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other peoples' money." To this I would add, that they are always hungry for more. The left has all sorts of grand plans for US tax payers' earnings, but letting us keep them are not among them.
This is why I think it is important for the Republican party to embrace the sequestration budget cuts and use it as a bludgeoning tool against the ravenous left. The left has shown themselves incapable of even a minute amount of budgetary discipline, thus it must be imposed upon them. Because if it is not, this country will become just another bloated first world country with high unemployment, high deficits and be on the verge of economic collapse when international bond markets stop buying our debt.
This will not be an easy task. I fully expect the democrats to pull the old "Think of the children!" histrionics. Be prepared for countless remonstrations about how sequestration will starve the hungry, throw women and children on the streets, and generally do all sorts of horrible things. It will be up to the Republicans to come together as a party and make the case that without sequestration or other budget cuts, our country will be in even worse shape (i.e. we are courting Grecian style economic collapse). Who knows how that debate will come out.
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