Polls Are Often Stupid; What About The Freedom To Be A Contributing Member Of Society?

A new Vanity Fair poll (that the media is making a big deal about ... of course!) shows that 65% of Americans think we should tax the rich to balance the budget. Hmmmm. What is the likelihood that one of the options they gave people on that poll was "spend less" to balance the budget?

Got news for y'all. It wasn't a lack of taxing the rich that got us into this difficulty. It was congress' irresponsible legislation and spending. The citizens didn't do this. In fact WE did NOT cause the mess with entitlements either! In fact, we are not the ones who allowed and contributed to the financial collapse. Congress did! So what is the first thing the more progressive among us want to do to fix the problem they and their peers caused? Take more money from The People so they don't have to reduce UNaffordable programs. Their fix is what their fix ALWAYS is: don't take responsibility for what they did but take more of The People's money to fix the problems congress created ALL ON THEIR OWN! Let someone else pay for the problems they created. Now that's a responsible thing to do/think, eh?

I wonder how many people in that poll won't pay any taxes for 2010? I wonder how many of those think that the rich aren't paying their 'fair share' but their own fair share is zero? By what definition of 'fair' does that make any sense? What's 'fair' is for every American to contribute to the cost of running a government from which they derive great benefits.

It's simply illogical that half of our citizens pay no federal income tax. It was only a hundred years ago that most people firmly believed that the burden of survival was shared. That our country was best when everyone had an oar in the water. Half the country paying no federal income tax for the security we all enjoy was largely unthinkable.

In fact, the founders and most elected representatives for our first 200 years firmly believed that each generation should pay its own way ... that passing debt on to future generations was FLAT unacceptable. America has always been at its best when its internal generosity and contribution to society was freely and responsibly given by everyone in the community (except for the few truly indigent and/or incapable). Others' needs came before their wants. The spirit of America is out of whack and we're not the better for it.