There are a group of people in this United States that wants.  They want free education.  They want free schools and universities.  They want free medical care.  They want the government to pay to raise their children.  They want the government to subsidize their food.  They want a card that would allow them to purchase not only their food but also their drugs, legal or prescription and recreational.  They want the government to provide their transportation.  They just plain want it all but don’t want to earn it.

All of this want bring the question: “Can the government afford to pay for everything that the wanters are demanding from the government?”  We need to understand this is a discussion of how can the government pay for everything the wanters want?  There is a group that believes that our government has enough money to pay for any and everything that the citizens of our country want.

I recently read an article by a Yale educated lawyer that poses the idea that government can fund most anything we need simply through taxation.  It was his opinion that under the prevailing law of the land there are no limits on the taxing authority of the federal government.  There is no percentage that is too high.  It was his opinion that our government should provide a total safety net for all American citizens, legal or not.  If you are here, the government should provide.   If the government needed more money to provide all of these benefits just raise the taxes to cover the collective need of the American citizens.  It was his belief that the government should not expand the money supply to the point that we incurred high levels of inflation but should maintain a stable money supply and thereby a stable economy that could support any needed level of taxation.

What he was saying, that none of us have a legal right to our earnings.  We don’t have a legal right to our property.  Everything belongs to the state and can be used by the state to satisfy the wants of the citizenry of the United States.  

It is worthy of note that when you pursue what appears to be a reasonable and logical thought to its extreme, you discover the folly, the flaw in the logic.  Those that migrated from Europe to form these United states fled for a number of worthy and noble reasons.  Among those reasons were the enumerated rights that we prize.  The right of free speech, the right to worship, the right to assemble, the right to own and bear arms or the right to protect ourselves, and the right to own property.  

In Europe in the middle ages only nobility owned property.  The nobility didn’t really take from the serfs, they confiscated what they owned in the amounts that they desired for what ever use they chose.  The nobility did not concern themselves with fairness, or the health of the serfs. They just left enough for the serfs to live on.  During times of shortage, they didn’t leave a living share.  The taxation of the nobles was total!

At the very heart of the freedoms of our country is the right to own and control our property.  When government theft through taxations confiscates at an excess level, it destroys the worth of the enterprise.   It is time that those that want the government to provide everything to understand, to learn, how to earn to fill their needs rather than relying on government to steal it from the working populace through taxation.  The property and moneys belong to the earners, not the government or the lazy.  Property ownership is fundamental to our right to life.