Liberal Concept of Fairness and Equity Runs Counter to Founding Principles

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Left's platform of "Fairness" sounds wonderful on the surface, which is why so many people fall for it. But the liberal propaganda is nothing more than socialism masked as promises that will never come true. It is not the role of government to try to create fairness in results. It is up to government to stay out of the way so that individuals have the equal opportunity to pursue happiness themselves.

A large part of that opportunity is the ability to own property. Natural law supports the independent ownership of property. Biblical text also supports the idea of individual property ownership. A free society requires private ownership. A society that encourages the ownership of property is also a society that must recognize that, as the Bible states, 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal.' A society that refuses to adhere to the commandments of Heaven becomes chaos. A society that eliminates the right of private property ownership becomes a tyranny.

The current reign of liberal madness in Washington calls for a socialist system that promises "fairness." President Obama in his State of the Union speech said, "We can go in two directions. One is towards less opportunity and less fairness. Or we can fight for. . . building an economy that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few."

Double speak.

Fairness is in opportunity, but in a system where opportunity is available, there will be winners and losers. There will be those that become wealthy, and those that don't. For those that lose, a truly free society will still provide the opportunity to try again, without government interference, without government control, without government regulation.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

The Declaration of Independence declares that among our rights are "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Note that we do not have the right to happiness, but the right to pursue it through our own individual actions.

A central government was created by the U.S. Constitution not to regulate our lives, but to protect, preserve and promote the union. A central government like our federal government is also capable of becoming tyrannical. Knowing the danger an expanding government, the authors wrote the Constitution equipped with limitations on the powers of government. The federal government's authorities are only those that have been expressly granted by the States, and nothing more.

Governmental spending was only supposed to be in relation to those limited authorities. If the federal government was to determine for itself its powers, and allowance to spend,and then goes beyond Constitutional limitations, a tyranny would follow.

James Madison, the father of the Constitution, addressed the issue of unlimited spending. He said, "It has been [said], that the power 'to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States,' amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defence or general welfare. . . If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one."

When the Progressive Era slammed into the United States, and gained full steam during Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the democratic socialism and strategy of class warfare under Karl Marx's guidance through the Communist Manifesto took on a theme of redistribution.

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

Using the Marxist platform, the progressive income tax rate took hold. Direct taxation with a progressive rate gave rise to class warfare, and ultimately the opportunity for the progressives to buy their power with entitlement programs. Personal ambition was being destroyed, and the platform of liberalism began its journey to destroy the liberty fought for by the Founding Fathers.

Collectivism, and communitarianism, through a socialist agenda, has brought us to this point. Barack Obama, and the current liberal democrat party, demands a fundamental change to the principles that founded this nation, demanding tax reform, demanding increased spending, and demanding more government involvement in the means of production. Free market solutions are not liberalism's desire. Through an argument of fairness, and equity, the liberal democrats are working to increase government intrusion in the private sector, and they are creating laws that encroach on our freedoms in the name of protecting us from ourselves (because it is somehow good for the collective good). Energy, transportation, banking, and even how we eat has come under the greedy lust for power by the federal government. The liberals demonize success, penalize wealth, and say that "fairness" can only be reached by taxing the rich, and targeting anyone or anything successful. Corporations have been proclaimed the enemy by the liberals, and the disinformation campaign by Obama has reached dangerous levels.

In his State of the Union speech Obama said, "You can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense."

Never mind that the rate was on capital gains, on money that had already been taxed before.

Divide and conquer.

Never mind that Warren Buffet's secretary is paid well above $200,000 annually, which is part of the reason for her rate.

Apparently, Ms. Bosanek isn't just any old secretary.

The fact is the top 0.1% wage earners pay more in taxes than the bottom 80%.  And those rich folks like Warren Buffet and Mitt Romney pays much more than the claimed 15% that the liberals proclaim.  The 15% is on capital gains. However, those funds were already taxed at 35 percent -- the highest corporate tax rate in the world. In other words, the vilified wealthy Americans are already paying more than 50 percent in taxes, far above the 30 percent rate of Obama's beloved "Buffett Rule," and far, far above his "15 percent" claim that is supposed to be less than that poor, underpaid secretary. . . that makes more than two hundred grand a year.

In other words, the liberal top dogs are top dog liars.

But with those entitlement programs, and more and more people joining up the ranks of the dependent, the liberal democrats are trying to take more and more taxes from the producers of society to pay off the recipients. After all, that is the best way they can buy votes.

Meanwhile, the liberal left's policies are destroying jobs.  From December to January the available pool of jobs dropped by 2.5 million. But the liberals are telling us with a seasonal adjustment 300,000 jobs were created. The loss of jobs is faster than the creation, so by that manipulation and destruction of the universe of jobs, it forced down the unemployment rate.

A seasonal adjustment is like implied powers. It allows the government to say whatever they want. Of course the manipulation is for the purpose of bringing down the unemployment number so as to help Obama's chance for re-election. As people drop out of the labor force the employment participation rate goes down.  This means that less jobs are available. It makes the rate go down. But with less jobs available, where do these former workers go? To government dependency?

More people give up looking for jobs. They are still unemployed, but since they have gone beyond the maximum unemployment benefits, they are simply no longer counted. The U-6 rate, however, is over 16%.

With disproportionate taxes trying to pay for expenditures not authorized by our Constitution, which can't be paid by an increase in taxes, it will never be enough, the democrats are decreasing the available pool of capital for economic expansion, job creation and higher standards of living for ALL working Americans.

Here's the scary part, though.  Should Obama gain a second term, as a lame duck who has no worries about re-election he will not be limited on what he is willing to do. He will do what he can to tax at an unlimited level. The goal will be to tax the private sector beyond the limits free enterprise can bear. The outcome would be the destruction of our economy, and the collapse of our system.

With that taxation, they will spend even more.

This election is more than an election. This election is the future of our country. But a moderate like Romney will more than likely lose, for only a conservative contrast to Obama's destructive ideology can win.

The next Republican presidential candidate must be one willing to defeat Obama, and change us back in the right direction. Only a republican with conservatism living in his core can do that.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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