Some Random Thoughts, 5/18/16.

I've seen headlines on the Drudge Report about the long wait times at security screenings at O'Hare International Airport and a few other airports as well.  Also, three thousand bags failed to make their flights at Sky Harbor in Phoenix last week.

So......we have a government agency, TSA, doing the screens.  We accept that as a consequence of 9/11. 

My question is........just how many of the people who missed their bags and their flights can't wait for the government to take over health care?

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Let's say we have someone who makes $50,000 a year, and it costs him a dollar to buy a loaf of bread.

Then we have someone else who makes $100,000 a year, and it costs him two dollars to buy a loaf of bread.

Is he better off than the first guy?

My answer is the first guy is better off.  He's in a lower tax bracket.

The point here, is that the fatass politicians desire inflation so that they can confiscate a higher percentage of wealth from those loyal subjects they have contempt for.  Sure, the dollars are worth less, but their percentage is upped so that the real value of what they take is increased.

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While on the subject of wealth, I sometimes hear about the rich "not doing their fair share", and thus need to have their taxes increased.  This makes sense to most folks as that they have a lot of extra money that they don't really need.........or so we're told by the Keynesians and especially by the 47% who pay no income tax. 

There's one thing that they haven't told us.

Just what is their "fair share"?  Is it a dollar amount?  Is it a percentage?

Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer to this.

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And while we're on the subject of the rich, those folks who complain about them not doing their "fair share" say that money needs to be taken from the rich, since the rich are made evil by mere possession of that money.  These self-appointed do-gooders say that they want to take this money from the rich so that they can give it to the poor, or more accurately, they want appointed government bureaucrat do-gooders to do the redistribution of this wealth since they know what's best for the masses. 

So if it's money that is making the rich evil, then if we take it from them and give it to the poor, won't that make the poor people "evil"?  Do we really want to go around and make everyone else "evil"? 

I could ask if taking money from the rich will turn them into "good" people, and I could also ask if this redistribution will make only the rich "good" and everyone else "evil", but I might be more likely to get an answer to my "fair share" question raised above, and I think getting the Beatles back together would be easier than getting that answer.

 

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Just what does it take be "rich", anyway?  Is it really the mere possession of money?  If say, the line is drawn at having $100,000 at a bank, does that mean that the person who only has $99,999 in the bank not "rich"?  If he's not rich, then is he poor?

OK, let's re-define this in terms of stocks. 

Today the stock is worth $100,000.  Tomorrow the stock market has a sell-off, but let's say that our rich stockholder was smart and only lost one dollar.  His stock is then worth $99,999. 

Is he now poor? 

 

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One final thought.

If you're going to ask the Good Lord for a gift, then consider asking Him for the gift of wisdom.

If you have wisdom, then you'll have the means of getting most of the other gifts you could have asked for.