We continually hear from politicians and political
commentators that they are worried about the debt and other problems that we
are currently creating for future generations.
I was thinking today that while that is a valid concern, we ourselves
are already part of a “future” generation that is saddled with the legislation
of the past.
I didn’t vote to elect the
people that passed the laws that enacted things like the income tax, social
security, and medicare, yet I am impacted by those laws every other week when I
send a nice chunk of the money I have worked for to the federal government to
blow a good chunk of on stupid, wasteful spending.
The biggest problem with this is that I have no way to go back in time
to see how things were before income tax, social security, and medicare were enacted.
Is the country a better place with these
things in place? I’ll never know firsthand
and for sure, will I? Well, at least not
until one of us builds a time machine and starts selling tickets.
Just as I am sure that a baby born tomorrow
will feel taxed without representation when they are forced to have healthcare
coverage whether they like it or not when they roll off mommy and daddy's plan at the young age of 26, I sit here today, feeling that I was
taxed without representation when the income tax, social security and medicare
were passed long before I was born.
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