Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed piece in which he bemoaned the lack of federal funding for education and infrastructure projects. He believes that increasing taxes on the richest 2 percent would cure the country’s economic malaise; yet he acknowledges that the Stimulus Bill had virtually no effect at all:
That is, for all of a failed stimulus, if you look at government spending now trailing off, while big state and local cutbacks continue, we’re going into reverse.
But isn’t keeping taxes for the affluent low also a form of stimulus? Not so you’d notice. When we save a schoolteachers job, that unambiguously aids employment; when we give millionaires more money instead, there’s a good chance that most of that money will just sit idle.
How are you giving millionaires more money? Do you mean by letting them keep what they earn? Notice how Mr. Krugman feels entitled to other people’s wealth by dictating what they can have and keep. He also seems to believe that millionaires hide their money under mattresses, how else could that mountain of cash sit idle.
Paul Krugman doesn’t like the anti-government tone that is pervasive throughout the country:
How did we get to this point? It’s the logical consequences of three decades of anti-government rhetoric that has convinced many voters that a dollar collected in taxes is always a dollar wasted, that the public sector can’t do anything right.
If that were true the morons in congress wouldn’t have went on an unprecedented spending spree that alienated there constituents. Either they’re tone deaf or just plain arrogant. Which is it? Krugman goes on further:
The anti-government campaign has always been phrased in terms of opposition to waste and fraud – to checks sent to welfare queens driving Cadillacs, to vast armies of bureaucrats uselessly pushing paper around. But those were myths; there was never remotely as much waste and fraud as the right claimed.
Really? United Van Lines published its annual migration study. The District of Columbia ranked as the #1 destination for the second year in a row:
MOVING IN
In 2009, the District of Columbia (67.8%) maintained its reign as the top destination in the United States for the second year in a row. While North Carolina (55.4%) was the only other Mid-Atlantic state to experience high-inbound growth, the state did fall in the migration study rankings, from the No. 3 high-inbound ranking in 2008 to the No. 10 spot in 2009
The Washington Times reported that the federal government will have an all time high payroll:
Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over" and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force.
That doesn’t sound like an army of bureaucrats to you, Mr. Krugman?
Paul Krugman is one of these big government nanny staters who don’t believe in the self-determination of States and local governments. He instead would rather have us send our money to Washington D.C. so that a pencil pusher can tell us what to do; then send it back to us with a huge cut taken out so as to support the monstrous bureaucracy that leeches off of us.
The State of Indiana seems to have found the cure for today’s economic hard times and they sure as hell didn’t take the advice of people like Paul Krugman.
Source: http://www.unitedvanlines.com/mover/united-newsroom/press-releases/2010/2009-united-van-lines-migration-study.htm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/02/burgeoning-federal-payroll-signals-return-of-big-g/?page=1
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