Exact Personalized Checks On The Proportions of Government
by: Betty Sikes on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 at: 1:43 PM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
The size of government is truly huge. If one thinks of government, most look just at the Federal government workers which number 11,028,000 jobs. They include grantee jobs, uniformed military personnel, Federal civil servants, contractor jobs and postal jobs. Counting the unemployed, those collecting social security benefit checks, collecting welfare payment checks, local and state hourly workers, cops teachers, firemen, librarians, road departments and state legislature, those figures mushroom into a huge personalized income tax bill supported by taxpayers personalized checks!
All evidence shows that reducing taxes, regulations, reducing the size of government creates more jobs in the long run. Most reputable studies have shown that Government spending below 25% of GDP spurs economic growth. The only sane way to rescue a business or household that is in trouble is if they check unnecessary expenses and become more productive.
Government size has mushroomed over the last fifty years. Not only the size but the scope of executive branch involvement has shifted significantly with the Woodrow Wilson presidency and every follow up president. Most ingenuously point to FDR as the tax and spend president, but they all have been guilty since Wilson.
The history of government spending and size shows that in 1900, the federal government used up less than 5% of total output (GDP). By the year 1950 the burden was raised to 15% and in 1999 it was about 19%. The mushroom has not stopped growing and many feel it is out of control. The personalized checks that taxpayers make out to finance State and Federal government attest to the fact.
A lot of citizens are incensed about the double-dealing perks the princes of government have dealt themselves. Most non-government taxpayers have to work 45 years before they are eligible for retirement. Not so for the government unionized workers. 20 years and they are out with pension checks, annuity checks and princely perks. Some might argue that the police and military have dangerous jobs and deserve early retirement. Put in perspective, these jobs are not as dangerous as those of iron workers, construction workers, forest industry workers, fishermen, etc. Generally without job security, non-government employment is based on their everyday effort in relation to the demand for the product they are creating. Retirement usually comes only after 65 years of age. Secure Federal and State public workers, on the other hand, appear as taking unfair advantage of the common man who is forced to pay for their hefty compensation.
Heavily unionized, job secure government workers gets to retire after only 20 years service. They are eligible for pension checks, annuity checks and other lavish perks. Their counterpart non-government worker usually has to work 45 years before they are eligible for retirement and social security benefits. They have no job security. Many private sector jobs are much more dangerous than those faced by police, fireman and the military, yet they have to put in their 45 sweat before eligibility rolls around.
March 2009 total number of jobs lost since the recession began is 5.1 million with unemployment at 8.5%. However the total of those unemployed is 13.16 million. These numbers, however, reflect the official unemployment data. What is rarely reported is the U-6 data, which includes those that no longer receive unemployment benefits or are no longer on the look out for work. The unofficial U-6 data show that real unemployment has now reached 15.6%. Couple the 15.6% with unemployed workers discouraged for more than a year, suddenly and magically, the government drops them off the role and says they are not "discouraged" any more and you have real unemployment approaching the 20% range. That is a depression.
It is easy to lose track of the total picture. The size and scope of government includes everyone getting a paycheck from federal, state and local government. You need to count all the numbers.
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." - Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. president. Even the wrong-sided economist, John Maynard Keynes said: "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward." So if will you ever see a box on the ballot where you can vote for the size of government? Story appointed by Personalized Checks
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