White House officials have unveiled a taxpayers’ “Federal Tax Receipt” website to goose publicity for a week of presidential speeches on the deficit, but the online receipt hides the president’s deficit spending and conceals the growing national debt.
The site, for example, shows that a family of three earning $50,000 in 2010 paid only $19 for interest on the national debt. But interest payments actually cost the nation $197 billion in 2010, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That’s roughly $657 per person, or $1,971 for a family of three, or 104 times what the White House website shows."
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them.” … “Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?” - Atlas Shrugged
No comments:
Post a Comment