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A Response To The Tax Hikers

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

You suggest that those who oppose a tax increase need psychological treatment for their “problem”.  However, you forget that government obtains money from the people by force.  While our churches, friends, and families try to persuade us or voluntarily help us, and businesses offer us deals and try to entice us, the government uses force to take our money and regulate our actions.  Every time you promote a new or enlarged government program, you are asking for more force to be used against your fellow citizens.

As the saying goes, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”  When you ignore the wide range of tools available in the voluntary, private sector and focus exclusively on the hammer of government as your only tool, you are treating your fellow citizens as nails – hammering us into submission to get your way.  But we aren’t nails!  We are living, breathing, bleeding humans, and we have been hammered enough. 

Kentuckians are like racehorses that have been so burdened down with taxes and regulations that they have become slow-moving pack horses.  When we are burdened with taxes and regulations and are punished for trying to be creative and productive, we tend to slow down (or vote with our feet by moving to a low-tax state).  If you want to see Kentuckians flourish, just reduce the taxes and regulatory burdens that are dragging us down.  Then stand back and watch what Kentuckians can do when they become unbridled!

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