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States Want A Bailout

by Big Dog on Apr 23, 2020 at 15:34 Political, Tyranny

The Democrats like to say never let a crisis go to waste. That is particularly true with regard to the Corona Virus. Democrats have used it to impose authoritarian rule, to limit what people can do and to ignore the US Constitution.

This crisis, if you want to call it that, has demonstrated that states were woefully unprepared for the pandemic. It is the responsibility of the states to have plans in place and to have adequate supplies for the beginning of a problem. The federal government is there to provide help to hot spots and coordinate movement of items among the states. It has bulk supplies to supplement the ones the states are supposed to have. As an aside, it is also the responsibility of hospitals to have supplies and plans in place.

When these things occur there is a fouled up response and then they have meetings, blue ribbon panels meet and they come up with plans to “ensure this never happens again” and then they put the plans in a drawer and the next time there is an emergency it happens again. And each time they encroach on our liberties.

Now it looks like these liberals are going to use this emergency (or try) to take more of our money. All these states that were screaming about being in control and not having the feds run their show are now saying they will need BILLIONS of our tax dollars to recover from the pandemic. If you think they mean to recover from Corona related items you are only partly correct. These liberals (and no doubt a few RINOs) want the federal government to pay for failing pension systems, budget shortfalls and billions of dollars worth of other shortcomings that states have had for years.

The Democrats in Congress are all on board making bold statements that the next stimulus (you know I hate stimulus packages) will include money for states to make their public sector pensions whole. There are plans to include money in the recovery to help states pay off debt including debt that was there BEFORE COVID-19. New York was 7 Billion in debt prior to the outbreak. Under the ideas floated by the Democrats, this debt would be paid off by the federal government as part of a stimulus package.

Why exactly should we pay the debt of the states? How is it the states can scream they have rights and the feds need to butt out (all very correct) and then say we need you to pay our bills, past and present? I hate stimulus packages but if the feds are going to take money from workers in each state then some of that needs to go back to the state to make things whole BUT only things that are a direct result of COVID-19.

States are already inflating COVID death numbers to get higher reimbursements. Now they expect the feds to pay all their bills, cancel out all their debt and make them whole again. I do not see that as being the way to go. States are responsible for the pensions of their public sector employees so they need to make those systems whole. Perhaps they should use this crisis as an opportunity to pare down those lucrative pension plans.

Fortunately, Mitch McConnell says that he and most Republicans will not be on board with bailing out the states. He says they might want to consider filing for bankruptcy. I agree 100%. States can pay their own bills or they can file for protection.

Keep in mind, government has the ability to tax you to death (and after you die) so in the long run you will pay for this. If your state has to foot its own bills it will raise taxes (and they will never go back down) or impose new ones (and they will never go away) to pay the bills. States are looking for the easy way out by spreading their misery to all the other states. It is important to remember if the feds pay the bill the federal taxes will need to be raised in order to pay the bills so everyone pays even if they are in a fiscally responsible state.

I am not in favor of paying the bills of the states. I am all for as little government as possible. Government has gotten too big and has imposed tyranny on us in the face of another “crisis”. We need to put an end to this mess. We are speeding toward 25 TRILLION dollars in debt and members of Congress and the leaders (or so called leaders) in the states are stomping down on the throttle.

And they are doing that because they will be dead long before their malfeasance destroys the nation. All of them are old and they will be dead before the mess they are causing has any affect. They will not be bothered by it so they do not care.

But your grandchildren will. Do not allow these cretins to further destroy our nation.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.

Tags: corona virus, government tyranny, state's rights, taxes