{"id":18755,"date":"2011-04-13T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:16","slug":"whose_money_is_it_anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/13\/whose_money_is_it_anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Money Is It Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Brian in Corpus Christi, Texas. Welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good, sir. Thanks very, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right man, I was just calling \u2019cause I wondered how you get to the conclusion that by cutting taxes that it isn\u2019t like a loft to our government because X-amount of tax would bring in that much income, whenever you cut the tax you cut the income, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, only if you presume that the money belongs to Washington first. I don\u2019t presume that. I presume that the money I make belongs to me first. I don\u2019t think —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand how it belongs to you first, yeah, but we do owe, you know, X-amount according to the Constitution and how much we gotta pay in taxes. If you cut that rate the government loses that amount of money, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Constitution\u2019s got nothing to do with how much we pay in taxes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nothing to do with it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Okay, another question. Sorry about that. I got a question. Our gas right now in Corpus Christi is about $3.75 a gallon, and I remember back when Bush was president and gas was this high, a barrel of oil was selling for like $140. I don\u2019t understand why a barrel of oil is going for like $105 today, and our gas is still $3.75. Why is that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speculators.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Speculators. I mean it\u2019s like $30 difference on a barrel —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speculators. Well, the speculation price versus the raw goods price differential is much different this time around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The guy that sets the gasoline price could just be taking advantage now, because everybody\u2019s been told gasoline prices are gonna be going up and so the guy that controls gas prices might have just said, “Okay, well, let\u2019s raise \u2019em \u2019cause people are expecting that to happen.” I want to go back to this notion, sir, we may have already lost you, but I hope not. I don\u2019t mean on the phone, I mean the way you think. This notion, you\u2019ve given me a challenge here. You\u2019ve given me a real challenge, like one I gave my dad, he told me, when I was seven or eight years old. You\u2019re giving me a real challenge here to try to explain to people the fallacy in the claim that unpaid-for tax cuts is a legitimate economic entry item or premise. Unpaid-for tax cuts. See, to me, instinctively, that is communist talk. But if it\u2019s not instinctively communist or socialist or collectivelist to talk to you, I have to find a way to explain it to you so you\u2019ll understand it. And that\u2019s going to be a bit of a challenge. It\u2019s not gonna be hard. It\u2019s gonna be a challenge to do it convincingly, persuasively, because you\u2019re looking at it from the standpoint of government needs X-amount of dollars to run, and you\u2019re not making any judgment on it. I do. <\/p>\n

I think half the money it takes is unnecessary and invalid and fallaciously spent. It\u2019s unnecessary. I don\u2019t think it takes $3.7 trillion to run this government. That\u2019s making it even more intricate, which I shouldn\u2019t be doing at this stage of the explanation, but I\u2019m just trying to describe for you my position on this. See, I believe that all wealth is created by individuals working, you and I in what\u2019s called the private sector. Without us the government would have nothing, and yet the presumption is that we have what we have because government allows us to keep a certain percentage of what we make. If we\u2019ve gotten to the point where a majority of people in this country think that it\u2019s more important for government to have what it wants with no concern for the consequences — in other words, try it this way. They raise your taxes, and you say, “I can\u2019t afford any more. I mean you\u2019re taking disposable income away from me. You\u2019re taking money that I need to buy food.” We\u2019re talking needs here, not wants. Well, how come the same doesn\u2019t apply for government? How come every tax cut the government has to pay for it? Why can\u2019t they do with less now and then? Why does a tax cut have to be paid for? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s that kind of thinking that gets us $14 trillion as a national debt. Unpaid-for tax cuts? The old notion that we should not cut taxes unless somehow we can replace that revenue? Why can\u2019t government do with less? We know how many programs are redundant on child health, school nutrition, all of this. I mean it would boggle your mind the amount of money that\u2019s triple and quadruple spent on the same projects. The purpose here is to deemphasize the relevance and importance of you as an individual. You are to be subordinate to the government. The government\u2019s needs are to take total precedence over yours. That\u2019s not America. And the notion that they can never do with less, but that we have to on every whim they describe, why, it offends my sensibilities. <\/p>\n

So when I hear some Marxist president start talking about the reason we have a $14 trillion debt or the reason we have a $1.9 trillion deficit is because of unpaid-for tax cuts to millionaires? No. That\u2019s not why we have a deficit. We have a deficit because of irresponsible spending on the part of people who work in Washington and they spend that money for a host of reasons, the least of which is your prosperity. They\u2019re spending money to buy votes. They\u2019re spending money to make people dependent. They are enforcing poverty on people. They are breaking up families under the pretense of compassion and concern and hoping to help people. They are destroying people\u2019s dignity by taking away the option of dreams and work and achievement and success. They are exploiting a natural tendency of some people to be lazy and shiftless and sit out there and do nothing but collect a check. <\/p>\n

Quite simply, sir, the Democrat Party is using people, exploiting people for one reason, and it has nothing to do with having a desire that those people have a happy life. It\u2019s all about making sure those people have barely enough to get by and that all they\u2019ve got comes from government, and that they know that the government providing it to \u2019em is the Democrat Party. Ergo, votes, year in, year out. I say after 50 years of this ultimate failure which destroys elements of the country and our people, it\u2019s time to try it a different way and to deemphasize the role of government in everybody\u2019s life. Why should your government stand in the way of your becoming prosperous? Why should the government be an obstacle to your prosperity? Why should we have a government that looks at your achievement as something to be punished by you having to pay higher taxes? It\u2019s not fair that you\u2019re not paying more. Why? Where did it get written in the great annals of humanity that the greatness of a country is defined by how many people it has barely getting by being provided for by government, because that equals compassion. Where did that get started? <\/p>\n

Your president today basically defined the greatness of America as that. We didn\u2019t become great country \u2019til we started redistributing wealth. Whatever you want to call the program, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, AFDC, WIC, Pell grants, I don\u2019t care, it\u2019s all redistribution, it\u2019s all it is. I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s not defined our greatness and it never will define greatness. That\u2019s been tried around the world, sir. It\u2019s been tried in Cuba. Is anything great down there? Tried in Soviet Union, Russia. Is anything great over there? ChiComs. The greatness that\u2019s occurring in the ChiCom circumstance happens to be to the extent that they are going capitalist in order to have any kind of a growing economy. I mean the Obama way has been tried. For as long as there have been human beings, who used to be monkeys walking the earth, it\u2019s been tried, and has never worked. Well, that was my concession to the Darwinists in the audience. <\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t work and this theory that government\u2019s in trouble because of unpaid-for tax cuts is part of the recipe of that failure. And that is that the number one thing in a nation\u2019s existence is its government. It\u2019s not. Certainly not the way this nation was founded. You know what you need to do, you need to go to online Constitution forum that\u2019s el freebo that the Hillsdale people are putting on on April 16th, because the Constitution doesn\u2019t say anything about taxes. Well, there\u2019s an amendment in there that deals with some, but tax rates, that\u2019s all the US House of Representatives, tax bills originate there. In fact, there wasn\u2019t an income tax until the 13th Amendment. That\u2019s where it is. And the original income tax, sir, what was it? I\u2019m gonna ballpark this, 1% on the top 1%. I mean it was tiny. It was minuscule. Anyway, I\u2019m glad you called. I relish these opportunities. <\/p>\n

The question I asked my dad was a religious question. I asked him how he was so certain that there was a heaven. And I\u2019m seven or eight years old. Now, he had satisfied it himself. My father was a lawyer, but he was also, for all intents and purposes, a scholar of the Bible. And he was deep thinker about it. The concept of eternal life was something that captivated him and he was always searching for ways to convince people with humanly logic, above and beyond just having faith in the Bible, he was always searching for something that would convince him, sort of like Pascal\u2019s wager, although this was not his, but Blaise Pascal, the brilliant eighteenth century philosopher. Pascal\u2019s wager basically was, hey, if the Bible says there is an eternal life if you\u2019re a believer, it makes sense to believe. If there is no afterlife and you die you\u2019re not gonna know the difference, but if there is an afterlife and you don\u2019t believe you\u2019ll find out because you\u2019re gonna be in hell, so safe bet is to believe. <\/p>\n

He taught Sunday school, he occasionally did sermons and so forth, so I asked him how he knew, how he was so confident, and he told me this story not when I was seven or eight, he told me later on when I was old enough to be able to understand it, and his answer was, “Well, son, you know, I believe in creation. I believe in a loving God.” He went through all that. Gotta make a short version of it \u2019cause of time. He said, “I just don\u2019t believe a loving God would create beings who could conceive of, plan for, and imagine and have faith in such places if it weren\u2019t true. It would be the ultimate cruelty of a loving God.”<\/p>\n

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