The Welfare State: No Mercy For the Middle Class
by Joel Turtel (writing as John McKay)
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The Welfare State: No Mercy For the Middle Class
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Do you struggle just to pay your bills? Is it almost impossible to save money to buy a house you can't afford anymore? Are your children getting a miserable education at your local government-run public school? Are you afraid of losing your job? Do your taxes keep going up while your standard of living goes down? Is health insurance so expensive that you can't afford it anymore, and the thought of getting sick terrifies you? The Welfare-Entitlement State, and the philosophy behind it, is causing your problems.
Over the past sixty years, America has turned into a welfare or "entitlement" state. Government now takes up to 50 percent of our income in taxes to pay for entitlement programs and regulations. Middle-class taxpayers have become beasts of burden---we pay for handouts, subsidies, and entitlements to an endless list of special-interest groups who demand the money we earn.
These special-interest groups include not only the classic "welfare" recipients, but far worse, corporations and millions of average middle-class Americans. We have corporate tax breaks, big farmer subsidies, college tuition grants, Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps, rent subsidies, "free" public schools, government-employee pensions, and free health care for millions of illegal aliens. Hundreds of special-interest groups, large and small, now feed at the public trough.
All these entitlement programs have one thing in common --- someone has to pay for them. That someone is you, the hardworking, middle-class taxpayer. The Welfare-Entitlement State requires legal theft on a massive scale because government confiscates our money through taxes to pay for these handouts, subsidies, and entitlements.
How do liberals, Democrats, and too many Republicans justify this legalized theft? They tell you it is your moral duty to "help" others, whether you like it or not. That means you have no right to your paycheck or your profits while others are in "need." If you refuse this alleged moral duty, they call you cruel and mean-spirited.
Most of us are not dumb enough to voluntarily hand over 50 percent of our income to bureaucrats. So liberals and Republicans alike use government to force this moral "duty" down our throats. Our elected representatives, our agents, put their hands into our pockets at the point of a legislative gun, and turn compassion into compulsion.
The author Joel Turtel asks, "by what right?" Why do we let our elected officials turn us into beasts of burden? Should government force us to "help" strangers at the expense of ourselves and our family? Does government have the arbitrary right to take 50 percent of everything we earn? What is the purpose of government? Is it supposed to protect our rights, property, and hard-earned paycheck, or is government our lord and master?
Turtel explores these vital issues. He also attacks the one vicious idea that's used to justify the Welfare-Entitlement State --- that government has the right to force us to be our brother's keeper, whether we like it or not. He shows how this idea spawned the Welfare-Entitlement State that now devours us with taxes, regulations, huge deficits, and skyrocketing health care costs. Lastly, the author shows us a way out.
He proposes a startling new Amendment to the Constitution that would end the Welfare-Entitlement State, once and for all. This amendment would permanently restrict government power and forbid local and state governments and Congress from stealing our hard-earned money and violating our liberty. The Amendment would end most regulations, abolish the income tax, and phase out all entitlement programs. It would give us a bright new future.
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