The Undergroud Economy

This post probably will not be as long as the last few, I simply want to state my opinion on the underground or black market economy.

Personally, I think there needs to be a black market for some things. For instance, whiskey,tobacco, and firearms. These items are so over-regulated by our government and these are things the government needs to not be involved with to start with. If a person wants to make corn whiskey in his shop or garage then more power to them and it shouldn't be any of the governments business. If I want to plant a tobacco crop and manufacture cigarettes and sell them, that's my business. You guys all know we have a government agency called the BATF. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. This is another agency that collects taxes just like the IRS. I don't smoke or drink, but I don't believe I have the right to tell someone else they can't. What you do in the privacy of your own home or homestead ought to be your business and your business alone as long as you don't interfere with your neighbors rights to quietly enjoy their place of residence.

As a side note; our town, until the last election cycle, was dry. Dry meaning you couldn't purchase beer or wine in the city limits of Paris. There are two small towns to the east and west of Paris that do sell liquor,beer, and wine. It has been my contention all along that Paris ought to be selling alcohol. Why? Because it's another freedom issue. If there are 100 people in a town and 51 of them do not drink while 49 of them do, the 51 ought not be able to tell the 49 they can't drink. It ought to be that store owners have the freedom to sell anything that is legal in their store. People were driving 5-10 miles to get their booze now they just have to drive to the nearest store. Some of you may not like my stance on this and I don't particularly care if you do or not. All I want on any issue is for the government to leave me alone. I don't like any far-left or far-right legislation, I guess I'm just a live and let live kind of guy as long as you don't bother me. Any extreme ideology is destructive to freedom and I don't want any part of that. I like things that work and there are just a whole lot of our laws that don't make sense unless your a extremist, either right or left.

Now, back to the underground economy and how it effects the tax paying citizens of this country. In some aspects a black market may not be such a bad thing, in other ways the black market kills our economy. Government needs to figure out a way not to be so intrusive that people will want to participate in a black market.

If you've read my blog before you know I've ranted and raved about the illegals being in our country. If you work for a living and pay taxes you need to understand that having these illegals here effects how much money you get to keep and indeed your freedom. These illegals get free medical care, food stamps, welfare checks, WIC and a free eduction all payed for by the money the government takes from you in the form of taxes. This is call transfer payments ie,. stealing from the people that work for a living and giving to those that can't or simply will not work.

How, you may ask, do these illegals get to take advantage of all these government giveaways? If you will listen to the radio and the TV the DHS advertises these services on public airways. These folks are after job security and the only way they can do that is to sign up as many people as they can to receive benefits. Having illegals drawing money from these services is a direct drain of your wallet. Please understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Never, not now, nor will there ever be anything on this earth that is free. When people draw money from the government it comes from people who pay taxes. The illegals are taking your money, illegals do not pay taxes most of them work for cash. The illegals also buy identities to use to appear legal yet still do not contribute to the IRS as the regular citizens does. When people get payed in cash the budget deficit for our country increases because there is a shortfall in the money the government receives yet there are still the people there demanding/needing services provided by our government. Guess who makes up the difference? If you said tax payers you are correct. It's hard for the tax paying citizens to build new schools when there are people in the system not contributing their fair share. It's really hard on all of us when we have to build new schools because we are overcrowded with people that shouldn't have been here to start with.

So, when you see illegals in the emergency room in the middle of the night just know that they probably don't have the money to pay for those services and the tax payers will either pay it or some doctor will not be paid. I realize lots of folks think doctors are very wealthy anyway and don't always have to be paid, I've got news for you, doctor's deserve to be paid just as much as the next guy. You and I will not work for free and we shouldn't expect doctors to do it either. I would hope any doctor I'd care to use would be very wealthy because that means that he or she is very good at what they do.

When you see illegals buying groceries and they use their food stamp card, they just stole from every tax paying citizen in this country. Illegals don't pay their fair share of taxes if any at all, and this money they spend belongs to you. If illegals actually paid their way like everyone else at least they'd offset what they take. I agree that we all have to pay way to much in taxes, but when we have some people that pay little to none that makes the burden on everyone else much greater.

I want to go over one more thing that I touched on in one of my other post's. It's one thing that we have to support citizens of this country that are lazy and sorry. It's quite another to be forced to support illegal aliens that don't belong here to start with. Supporting our sorry lazy people is not tolerable, supporting illegals makes me go ballistic. I just wish enough of you out there would come to understand how damaging this all is to our country and our way of life and get together and go vote some of our politicians out of office. We need to stand up and be vocal and impose one term limits on our great "esteemed" leaders from the "boondoggle" called Washington DC. After a couple of election cycles these "fat-cats" that go to Washington would get the message. Some of our states such as Oklahoma and Texas actually "get it" and are fighting off the feds and the ACLU.

When illegals live in HUD houses, they are still stealing from the tax paying citizens of this country. I will say no more about this, you either get the picture now or you never will.

Please, get out and talk to all your friends and neighbors about these issues. Solving these kinds of issues is whats going to determine whether we are a free people in another decade. Get involved in the political process and make a wise informed vote. I believe if everyone would sit back and look at what we have, the polarity of our senate and house would change this next election cycle and we'd be rid of our "head Muslim in-charge" in less than four years. Come on America!! Wake Up, the communist are coming and they are in the process of taking over our country. Lets send Barry HUSSEIN OBAMA home!