One of the hots topics of late has been taxes and the “Stimulus” package. The average tax payer is going to get $13 a week back. What a joke. Tell me how $13 a week is going to stimulate the economy? I feel like I’m banging my head up against a wall when I talk about needing to do something about the current tax system. I hear things like the government won’t want to give up the power and control it has. But I also hear stories of how the current tax system punishes those trying to succeed.

I listened intently as I was told about the long hours being put in, 12-14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. This individual just wanted to succeed and do better for himself. Long hours to be able to pay his mortgage on time, to provide for his family and to try and be able to put money aside for later in life. This individual did do better in 2008, than he did in 2007. All of his hard work was rewarded by a HIGH TAX BRACKET! It was all he could do to contain himself. “I worked very hard to earn that money and now the government wants to take more of it to give to lazy people who prefer to live off the government?” “I give money to my church and charities that I choose to give to, why am I being forced to give to those who refuse to do for them self?”

How can I console him? Should I tell him to quit paying his mortgage so he can get bailed out? That would get some of his hard earned money back. How can he continue to encourage his children to work hard?

How can WE stop this madness? It’s insane. We need to be rewarding those who work hard, instead of kicking them in the balls.

3 thoughts on “Punishing Success

  1. You are so right: our tax system is nothing short of insane. We reward sloth and punish industriousness. I’ll never understand why working hard to get ahead entitles the government to steal a greater percentage of what you earn. Likewise, I’ll never understand why choosing to do nothing entitles you to feed at the public trough.

    Like your story, I have personal knowledge of the other side of the coin. I know a guy who hasn’t worked in years. He has a live-in girlfriend and two kids. She works odd minimum wage type jobs, but makes sure not to earn too much to hurt the welfare checks. He has been offered jobs, but he’s turned them down because he makes more from the various federal programs they’re enrolled in. If he actually went to work, it could put his handouts in jeopardy. And with child and earned income credits, they were getting tax “refunds” without paying any taxes. What a scam.

  2. These are the types of stories we need to share. “We The People” need to find a way to either take this country back or find a way to secede.

    Hmmmm, “If We Can’t Succeed, We Must Secede”

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