#466 Driving Taxes

This whole welfare thing has to stop. People need to be self-sufficient. Giving them a handout is robbing them of their will to succeed. If you bail people out all the time, they’ll just start to take advantage. All of a sudden their demands will get excessive. They’ll be depending on you for everything. They’ll want you to do something really extravagant like—build them a new sports arena. Ha ha. Had you going. For a second there you were going, Oh my gosh, what happened to libertarian Funny Guy? He was starting to sound like Rush. And it wasn’t no Tom Sawyer. Well that’s the point, what applies to one, applies to the other. Now I think I understand that big corporations create jobs and those jobs pay people and the pay from those people gets spent on stuff like household notions and the taxes from the sale of that stuff fill the coffers of government full. And that those coffers are then emptied putting up roads and parks and the all important infrastructure. So I can kind of, sort of, almost, see Boeing coming to the government and saying: Hey, back off the sales tax on 747s, we do a lot to fuel the tax engine already. But what I don’t understand is, oh, say, Nascar coming into Washington and bringing all their big gun drivers before the legislature to cadge a few million to help them build a race track. At what point did South Sound Speedway and Grays Harbor Raceway get a big chunk of state dollars to put up their tracks? Is it because they’re smaller organizations and don’t promise to employ enough people? Is it, after all, another case of size matters? Is it not that the smaller raceways didn’t need the money but that they didn’t dream big enough? It seems to come down to arrogance. The baseball teams and the football teams and now the basketball teams are all looking for a handout. You kind of wonder why anyone would want to get into the sports franchise business. I mean, it must not be all that profitable if you always have to be going to the government to bail you out. Oh right. You skim off the profits before you go broke. Open up a nearby convention center, keep your revenues from concessions separate—little profit diverting tricks that make the construction costs seem too onerous to bear by one civic-minded sports franchise just trying to give their fair city and state a title of some sort. It’s really too bad. The small business is the backbone of American commerce. The small businessperson takes the biggest risks and has the most to lose. And cares the most about his clients. Cause they’re his neighbors too. The giant megacorps with their Enron sensibility and bottom line fancy bookkeeping suck the government corporate welfare trough dry. Then turn around and support political candidates who wring their holier-than-thou hands about all the deadbeats on welfare. Hey, maybe if you gave them a free Nascar ticket, they’d get a job...
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