Why Is It....

that people feel that its perfectly ok to wrong the people in their lives then pray to whichever god they worship expecting that to heal the wounds without saying a word to those they did wrong? Is it because it would require an admission of guilt in the real world with real consequences? I read a joke once about a boy who wanted a bike, so he wrote a letter to God asking for one. He started by writing "God, I've been a very good boy and I would very much like a bike." He realized this wasn't the truth, so he tore it up and started again. This time he wrote "God, I've been a pretty good boy, and I would very much like a bike." Well he realized this wasn't the truth at all either, so he tore up that letter, went out and stole a bike, and prayed for forgiveness. Too many people today seem to have this attitude that they can take whatever they want from whoever, and if they get away with it, everything is hunky dory. It is not. There are many things, intangible things, that until recently I was not even aware could be taken...and in ways I could not previously fathom. Those who took these things know who they are and what they took, and are apparently under the impression no apology is necessary to those they stole from.  This could not be farther from the truth.

The liberal intellectual elite in this country are much the same way, feeling that it is fine to take from those who earned what they have and give to those who did not, so long as it doesn't affect them. Rarely will you come across an individual who will themselves take a hit to do what is right in the long run or make a necessary change. This is the difficulty faced by anyone attempting to make significant, meaningful change in America's political structure and system of taxation. As the nature of these changes come to light, one bumps into special interests on every side who are doing not much more than the boy with the bike, in the guise of charity or compassion or fairness, when their real intention is to line their own pockets and bring down others they view as a threat. The single biggest and most helpful change this country could make, possibly more important than healthcare reform, is tax reform. Our progressive tax system is overly burdensome to job creators and private entities in a position to help others make a bigger pie. The FairTax is a way to not only tax wealth, which is something our current tax system passes over, it also taxes blackmarket activity and would pave the way to the repatriation of approximately $11 trillion dollars in private revenue kept in offshore tax shelters. Our national debt is somewhere around $17 trillion, just to put that in perspective.

I sort of went off on a wild tangent on this piece, for which I beg  your pardon. If you couldn't tell, the first part has some personal significance which led to the second part, which is more general in nature but still related in that the second part is somewhat analogous to the first.