To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) We have shown over the years that the American political class is comprised of some of the biggest hypocrites in the country. During the covid pandemic shutdown, we saw mayors shut down their cities and the businesses within but then insist that hair salons, nail salons, etc. open up just for them but not for their constituents. We have seen politicians insist that their voters inconvenience themselves and wear masks while they flaunt their own mask edicts. We have seen politicians limit the amount of people that could gather in one place and then witness Obama throw himself multiple parties for his 60th birthday attended by hundreds of people.
Hypocrites to the nth degree. But it is not only covid circumstances where we see the hypocrisy:
- Communist/socialistic members of Congress have come up with the hair brained scheme that landlords should not charge their tenants any rent for the privilege of living in the landlords’ housing units until an undetermined future date, the so-called end of the pandemic.
- The idiocy of such a proposal is somehow not evident to these folks: if landlords cannot collect rent to cover their expense of the housing units, then they will either abandon the housing units or stop renting them out, resulting in severe housing shortages.
- But their economic stupidity is not the topic today, it is their hypocrisy of proposing such nonsense.
- You see, a few of these politicians are actually in the rental unit business today.
- For example, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a supporter of the free rent movement, and her husband collected up to $15,000 in rental income last year, as reported on her Congressional financial disclosure report.
- Apparently, her and her husband own rental property in Boston that they have reported income from in multiple years.
- Another socialistic member of Congress, Tashida Tlaib, is also pushing for this indefinite moratorium on paying your rent until the pandemic.
- And she also has reported on her disclosure reports that she also has rental property and is continuing to collect rent on that property going back multiple years.
But they do not want to set a good example or lose their income stream. They want to get in front of cameras and news people and act like they care for the downtrodden while in reality they are collecting rent from the downtrodden every month. Insane hypocrisy.
2) Oh so many times we have covered the criminal experiences of elected politicians across the country, both in DC and in cities and towns across the country. One would hope that leaders in the communities, the local politicians, would set high standards of integrity and honesty.
But that hope never seems to materialize. Consider the latest possible corruption coming out of Detroit:
- Apparently, the FBI had enough evidence to raid the homes and offices of two Detroit city council members.
- The search warrants for the raids involved dozens of FBI agents as they seized boxes of potential evidence related to corruption possibilities against Janee Ayers and Scott Benson, both members of the Detroit city council.
- According to Tim Waters, the FBI agent in charge in Michigan: “Why are we doing these search warrants? Because the citizens of Detroit have a right to a city government that is free of corruption. Simply what we’re doing today is collecting evidence, which will be presented to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Michigan, who will make all decisions on charging in this ongoing investigation.”
Seems like Detroit politicians are no better from an integrity perspective than those around the country.
3) Let's look at some numbers and see what correlations, causations might be evident relative to regional unemployment rates around the country:
- As reference, consider that the nationwide unemployment rate right now is about 5.4%.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada, California, New Mexico, New York, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Illinois have unemployment rates over 7%, well over the national average.
- Now, these states not only are all traditionally run by Democrats but they have some of the highest across the board tax burdens and regulations for citizens and businesses in the country.
- More than once we have looked at other data that show citizens and businesses cannot get out of New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois and other high tax states quick enough.
- The same government report showed that Republican-run states, and states with generally lower tax burdens all had unemployment rates under 3%: Nebraska, Utah, South Dakota, and New Hampshire all have an unemployment rate under 3%.
It has always amazed us that politicians in Democratic states and cities do not understand, or do not want to understand the basic concept: economic activity and growth is maximized when taxation is low, “people just want to be free.”
4) The other reason why it is a good idea to have low tax burdens is that it seems the more money we give to politicians the more money they seem to waste. Consider:
- According to the Federal Safety Net, “Improper welfare payments, including welfare fraud, are estimated to be 15.6% of all federal welfare payments made and totaled $129 billion in the fiscal year 2020. This estimate is based on reports from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), The General Accounting Office (GAO), and an Inspector General report.”
- $129 billion a year is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer wealth, about $900 for each and every taxpayer.
- That is $900 worth of taxpayer wealth that could not be used to make life better for those 144 million taxpayers, be it more food, entertainment, school tuition, maybe start a business, etc.
- Instead, the Washington political class flushed it down the drain with fraud.
- Another example is that $129 billion could have fed every homeless American three daily nutritious meals for over 70 years, that is how much $129 billion is.
Enough insanity for today: wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer wealth, higher taxes means higher unemployment, hypocrisy in the rental market, and possibly more political corruption in Detroit.
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