Taking a peek at just one county in North Carolina, one can see how those inside government view citizens -- as cash cows, whose only purpose is to fund the government so they can spend more money.

The County Commissioners are struggling with how much to raise taxes. The article linked here tries to sell the tax increase by claiming that without some tax increase, the sheriff's department and the health department won't have enough money.

That's typical of government. Scream that people will die or be unsafe unless they implement a tax increase. What these people fail to mention is that with ZERO tax increase, the county will have an additional EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS! That's right, $8,500,000.00 NEW MONEY -- but they're arguing that they need more, more more.

The county claims that without a tax increase, the new "downtown health plaza" will "lose" $800,000. Can someone explain to me what business it is of government's to even fund a "health plaza?"

Also included in all possible scenarios, with or without a tax increase is an employee pay raise of 3.4%. Why? Why should government work be so financially rewarding? Because they're competing with private industry -- and that's wrong. Anything private industry can do, government should NOT be competing with them.

But alas, this is the system of government we are saddled with today -- nothing at all like the representative republic that was founded on principles of freedom so many years ago.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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