The remedy for America heading into 2024 is simple: Limit the power and scope of government. How do we do it? Alex Newman provides the answer.
The 2024 election is the MOST important in American history, they say. Even a year out from the election, no doubt you have already heard the phrase countless times. Liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, have been saying it ad nauseum for months. You will hear it many more times before the election comes around.
You undoubtedly heard the same thing about the 2020 election. And the 2016 election before that. Assuming the nation hobbles along for another four years, you will hear it about the 2028 election, too. And the next one after that will be the same hysteria all over again, if America is still standing. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Surely, they cannot all be the most important election in history, right? As a matter of fact, it is true: By almost every objective measure, each election becomes more important than the last one. The reason for that is simple: Every year, the government gets bigger and more powerful. And every year, the government spends more money than it spent the previous year.
That ongoing growth in the size and scope of government means that with each passing year, there is ever more money and power at stake when it comes to who wins the election. More money and spoils will be doled out to members of the winning coalition and their cronies. And growing government power will increasingly be wielded against the losing side. As such, the next election becomes more important than the previous one as the stakes get higher and higher.
Today, the federal government spends well over $6 trillion annually. When combined with the trillions in additional spending of state and local governments, almost half of all the wealth produced by Americans each year is being sucked up and doled out by the government. Put another way, that means working Americans are spending about half of their time toiling away for the government, often more in high-tax states.
Consider how rapidly this spending has exploded, too. In 1900, the federal government spent around 2.5 percent of GDP. Today, it is more than ten times that amount, with the feds spending about $20,000 per man, woman, and child in the United States. Those numbers are continuing to balloon as the national debt and unfunded liabilities are now measured in the hundreds of trillions. State and local governments have been spending more and more money, too.
Clearly, this trend is unsustainable. If present trends continue, government will bankrupt the nation and consume virtually everything produced by the American people in the not-too-distant future. In light of this, each election is increasingly becoming an existential threat to a huge segment of the American population.
Read more at GEORGE.com.
Article posted with permission from Alex Newman.
