The poor taxpayer has all kinds of burdens hanging on his back. He or she is expected to not only support the building of roads, support our the military, arm and feed foreign nations, monitor our food, water and air to assure that they aren't killing us, provide for law enforcement agencies to protect us from the bad guys and a huge number of additional government functions that are growing as fast as our congress can think up things that they think the taxpayer should support.
In addition the taxpayer has the privilege of supporting retired public employees with pensions and retirement benefits that he or she will never enjoy. Of course we're glad to do that because the poor government employee with their secure jobs, 30 days vacation a year, high wages for the skills they bring to the job and medical benefits that most of us envy, along with sick leave and other fringe benefits deserve it.
Of course the taxpayer has the privilege of supporting the illegal immigrants flooding across our border. The President says so, and the President is never wrong.
Now the taxpayer has the privilege of supplying most of the funding for the medical coverage dictated by the recently enacted Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obama Care. That's in addition to the already imposed Social Security tax. A pyramid scheme if there ever was one.
The taxpayer is also glad that the Local, State and Federal regulators and law makers hide a lot of the burden of taxes that they have to shoulder. Take a look at your utility bill sometimes for instance. Or better yet, think of how much the price of a new car, or any other purchase, is determined by the cost to the manufacturer of taxes that they have to pay to government. In the end the consumer pays all taxes. That doesn't include the costs to the consumer due to myriad of regulations that the manufacturer labors under, which, by necessity, is passed on.
As we move further and further into a total welfare state, the taxpayer will have the privilege of supplying more and more of the funding necessary to keep the government engine running. And, it is clear we're heading toward a sort of quasi socialist state right now. Isn't the taxpayer lucky?
