Is cheating just a way of life today in America? I was reading a story about a Florida Minister and his son being arrested for taking millions dollars of PPP money but using the money to buy a mansion in Orlando. We had a roofer here in Southwest Florida that took money and bought himself a 650,000 dollar Cat Boat. I know a private boating club that took their PPP money and put in a new patio with it. This is money that was supposed to help companies and organizations make their payroll so their workers didn’t have to suffer during Covid. Brett Favre was involved with taking money meant to go to the poor and have a Volley Ball Facility built at his alma mater. He also took millions for speaking engagements that he never did. He paid that money back but he is still walking around free. Why? Is it because he is a big football hero? Is it because he is rich? If it was me or some other poor smuck we would already be in jail. I keep hearing from both sides of the aisle that we are a nation of law. Sometimes I think that we are not.

The Biden administration is going to add like 87,000 new IRS workers over the next 10 years. That is to cover retirements and also build up the IRS so they can be more effective. That has just outraged the Republican Party. I just don’t get it. This is the Party that said that Democrats want to defund the police. Republicans want to defund the police that catch tax cheaters. Cheating on your taxes is breaking the law. It cost this country billions and billions of dollars. They want the kid to be busted for shop lifting but when comes to tax cheats they think that is ok. I have to ask this question why? Yes, stealing from a local merchant is doing harm to the merchant. Stealing money meant for the poor does a tremendous amount of harm to the poor especially the poor children. Cheating on your taxes is really stealing from the government. Do you think that the Republican Party is worried that your next door neighbor is going to get audited? Unless your neighbor’s name is Musk or Trump they really don’t care. This is again about the billionaires that own the Republican Party. The rich, the one percent, as they are called have all ready received tons of tax breaks. The Republicans want them to be able to cheat even more and not get caught. If I was worth a billion dollars I would gladly pay my taxes. I would want to keep this the greatest country in the world and paying my taxes helps that. The owner of Home Depot wants me to drive to his store on roads that our tax dollars built. The owner of Amazon wants to be able to deliver goods that I order over roads that our tax dollars paid for. Our infrastructure is built on tax dollars. Am I ok with my tax dollars going to our educational system? Yes, I am more ok with that than giving billionaires tax breaks when they have more money than they need. Am I ok with my tax dollars going to help rebuild after a natural disaster? Yes, having lived through Ian and seen the destruction so of course I am.

I am really not the biggest fan of big government spending that you may think. The problem with big government spending is a lot of that time money is spent on people that really don’t need it. Sending a stimulus check to everyone instead of the ones that truly need it is what I call wasteful spending. Mine came with a letter with Trump’s name on it. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciated the money but I was not destitute like lots of people were during Covid. There was great need but I think that one problem with America is that too many people get upset when we see someone get something that they am not getting. You solve that problem by giving it to everyone. There are people here in Florida that can afford to clean up their own yards after the Hurricane but instead are having you and I pay for it instead by applying for FEMA to come and do it. Here again I am thanking my stars that FEMA has been here but if you help one person I guess you have to help everyone. Even the ones that can afford to help themselves.

I will never understand how increasing spending on infrastructure increases inflation. That is what I am being told. Spending on infrastructure is creating jobs. Good paying jobs, tax paying jobs which in turn provides for more money into more people’s pockets to spend which in turn creates even more jobs. I would think that is a good thing. We tell people that they have to pick themselves up and find a better paying job and you are telling me that it’s inflationary?  Keeping people from getting better paying jobs is the solution to inflation? I guess high unemployment is the key to keeping inflation low. Greed is what has caused this thing inflation and it is that simple, not people getting better paying jobs or the Infrastructure Bill.  During this inflation the rich have just kept on getting richer. The problem is that the one percent doesn’t want to have not regulations that make the American consumer safer; they just want to get richer at the expense of the American consumer.

To me tax cuts are the same as increasing spending. Taxes on the One Percent are the lowest that they have been in my lifetime and I was born in 1953. The deficit was the highest when Trump left office in my lifetime. Tax cuts increase the deficit as much, if not more, than increase spending.  The only way that we can keep America great is if everyone pays their taxes and most of that burden shouldn’t fall on the shrinking middle class.