So I got a part-time job. It just kind of happened and I wasn’t really looking for it, but it seemed to fit in pretty well with other responsibilities I have. It’s on a 1099 so there are no benefits. Because of the nature of the position, my tax guy told me that when all was said and done the government would be helping itself to a full 30% of my meager earnings.
Every morning now my thought is: why bother to work?
Truly, on top of the government’s 30% I have expenses and wear and tear on my car, and there’s a whole load of things in my life I won’t get to do, things that are important to me.
So I have to pay the government 30% of these earnings on top of the taxes they take out of my pension and Social Security. I have to double-pay Social Security on my new earnings and my own benefits won’t go up.
WTF?
Know what I mean?
So it works out like this: I really wouldn’t mind paying the government if it was doing something. I don’t consider what the Democrats are doing something. I consider what they are doing and have been doing since Hillary lost as less than nothing. Apart from the fact that they are undermining the very pillars of our Republic, what they are about is the very antithesis of all America stands for.
Then, as it stands, I don’t want to pay for benefits for illegal aliens, especially when American citizens can’t get the services and benefits they need and in many cases have worked and paid for.
I don’t want to pay for loafers and system-beaters, for those people who can work but choose not to, those very same people who are benefiting from my hard-earned, life-long working, my tax dollars, those very same people who laugh at me for working and don’t work even though they could.
I don’t want to pay for someone’s abortion or their birth control. That’s not a judgment on either one. It’s a simple statement: if those things are free choice, then the chooser should pay for their choice.
I don’t want to pay for our ridiculous political class to squander our money when they don’t take care of the things that we need taken care of in this country.
I certainly don’t want to pay for their indiscretions, you know, the slush funds they use to pay off the people whom they’ve harmed or abused sexually.
I don’t want any of my tax money to go to sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, or wars that we should not be engaged in.
And on and on.
But they don’t care. They’ll take the 30% from me whether I like it or not. Many of the 50% of the people who don’t pay any taxes at all will wear better shoes than I do, have bigger TVs than I have, will spend their benefit money on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and still laugh at me while I trod to off to work to pay for their benefits. They’ll laugh when I have to pay for my medical care then pay a co-pay, and they’ll laugh when I can’t get a medication I need because it is too expensive and I can’t afford it, one they get for free.
And then that new Politburo political class that we have wonders why people in America don’t respect them, trust them or like them. Maybe they’ll wonder again in 2020 why they lost.
