So, I took my family to DC this week, and we’ve been seeing several different museums. My attendance at these museums is due to a training event that I was supposed to be enrolled in being cancelled, but my travel being booked and costing as much or more than the original tickets to change.
As I was walking down the National Mall today, from the National Museum of Natural History, all the way west to the Lincoln Memorial, I passed several different groups of people wearing the “Taxed Enough Already” shirts. One of these groups had a lady wearing one such shirt and she was talking about enjoying her trip to the museums, the monuments, etc.
So I got to thinking…
What’s so good about these museums? What’s so good about this National Mall? I mean, they are, after all, paid for with the tax dollars that the shirts imply these people were protesting.
Of course, I’m VERY well aware that these folk had a specific agenda: namely, they don’t want their tax dollars to be spent on HEALTHCARE for all. The same “all” who may, returned to health, help contribute more to the economy.
But in actuality, what IS the real difference?
I mean, you pay for one social program, and soon all the other ones come knockin’. You pay for healthcare, and pretty soon people are going to want the government to pay for education, or defense, or maintenance of a national highway system, or a national retirement system, right?
Oh wait…
