Jim DeMint comments on Tax Day

April 15, 2009
Dear Friend,

Today is the deadline to file your tax returns and its a good time to remember that its our people and our freedoms that make America great, not the bloated federal government in Washington. I wrote an article for the Greenville News that I wanted to share with you, here's an excerpt:

Today, the first tax day of Barack Obama's administration, it is time for conservatives to remember the one thing we most want to conserve: freedom.

Everything wrong with our economy is attributable to some misguided effort in Washington that infringed on our freedom: some tax or regulation or new, "compassionate" spending program. These things don't work.

Every time politicians grow government to solve a problem, they create three new ones. Then government must grow again to solve those three, and on and on the cycle goes. But every time Congress sets its mind to "do something," it has to take a little bit more of our money, and a little bit more of our personal and economic freedom to do it.

And before you know it, every baby in America is born with a $34,000 share in the national debt. That is simply immoral. It is a crime, a $20 trillion theft perpetrated by politicians against our children, and if we allow it continue, we will deserve history's condemnation.

History's lessons could not be clearer: everywhere socialism has been tried, it has failed. Inevitably, jobs are lost, opportunities stifled, businesses shuttered, economies stagnated, health care rationed; government increases and freedom decreases.

We cannot spend our way out of a deficit, tax our way out of a recession, or borrow our way out of debt. The only economic system that works is one based on free people making free decisions. It was 200 years of economic freedom that made America the world's greatest superpower, not Washington control.

 Read the full aerticle here

Sincerely,

/s/ Jim





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