Whose money is it?

Sen. John Kerry’s comments on the Senate floor during the debate over tax cuts in the economic stimulus plan belie a misunderstanding common to the governing class.



Politicians operate on a fundamentally false belief, and unfortunately many citizens have bought into this fallacy, consciously or not. Politicians think that all of the money and resources in this country belong to them and they get to decide how much of it we the people get to keep. They believe that they can better handle our money than we can. That’s why they act like a tax cut represents some kind of gift. In reality, a tax cut simply allows citizens to keep more of their own money.

IT’S OUR MONEY!

We worked for it. We earned it.