Cut Spending, but not Because We Don't Have any more Money

These days, it's easy to see the spending problem in the federal government and elsewhere.  We're out of money.  We've been out of money for some time.  Deficit spending has become he norm.  There are things we want, so let's just borrow more and more money to get everything we want.  We don't have enough income for the lifestyle we're used to, so the answer is, borrow more?  Anyone can see that this kind of thinking is wrong headed.  It's easy to see that what goes on in Washington wouldn't work in a real world business or household.

We've got no money, so we've got to spend less.  But that's not why we should make spending cuts.  We should make spending cuts because it's wrong to take someone's money, at the point of a gun, and give it to someone else.  "Thou shalt not steal" applies to legalized stealing, too.  "But people need the money they get from the government and those richie richertons would never give it voluntarily."  Step back into that dark alley I previously described, point the gun at the rich man and take his money.  And once again, just because you're giving it to that poor family you know, you're still a criminal.  What you've done is wrong.  It is not charitable to give money you stole from someone else.