The Industrious pay for the Lazies’ Luxuries is an opinion editorial by David Cox observing that there are now two classes of states in the United States, those that seem as though they cannot produce for themselves, and those industrious states that produce a lot.
The difference between these two classes of cities and states is very important to mark, especially as time goes on. I will take the example of California. California could be considered a country unto itself, and in many ways, their thinking over there is just that. Very independent.
But a few observations. Why is California in so much debt? They cannot run their state and raise taxes and spend that money balancing it, the one with the other? It is unbelievable once when I made a trip from South Carolina to Los Angeles, and I paid less than a dollar a gallon for gas in South Carolina and almost $5/gallon in California the same week. Why? Because California has the heaviest and most burdensome taxes in the United States.
So they are poor or what? Silicon Valley is home to dozens of the most powerful and money producing and equity heavy companies in the US. Where are their tax income for California? These are the Googles, Facebooks, Apple, and Twitters that pay no taxes. Why? Because Democrats have made tax loopholes for them.
So how does California do it? They mooch off of the Federal Government. It is indicative of what the Democrat controlled Congress and the Democrat White House has down in all the Covid relief bills (actually a false concept, because these bills are not relief for Covid, but general mismanagement of the Democrat cities and states).
So the short of this is that in places where Republicans are hard-working, we pay our taxes, but these taxes go very heavily into prop up Democrat cities and states. So what does the Democrat government of California do with a sudden $500 million dollar windfall from the relief bill? He gives it to illegal aliens and provides health care for them. The point is very clear here, though. They are using money from all taxpayers to specifically “buy” voters among the illegal aliens. The poor Californians who are legal citizens will get none of this, by the way. Most are Democrats. So why slight your own constituency? This is the puzzle of the Democratic Party today.
The Congress should make a law against giving federal money away to illegals. Oh, wait a minute, that law has been on the books for a while. Why doesn’t anybody enforce it then? The Democrats are in control, and they are using the breaking of this official law of Congress for their own benefit.
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- Are we a country of Laws?
- Why Homosexuals are Aggressive?
- Diligence versus laziness
- How hard work relates to our expectations from government
- What is wrong with our Political Parties?
- The Messianic Character of Government
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Getting People to faithfully integrate in the Church is an article on how to get people to participate in your church. This article links to more articles dealing with these issues.
Topics: So we should start with the reason as far as why a Christian should congregate. | A. Why people come to church | The Wrong Reasons for Coming to Church | (1) Because somebody makes me go to church | (2) Because I want to find a Christian mate | (3) Because I want the economic benefits the church offers me | a. Christians have to renounce riches and the retaining of riches to be truly saved. | b. The value of a person's life is not in the possessions he owns. | c. Covetousness is a great sin before God. | d. Rich people hardly enter heaven. | e. Christians should seek mediocrity, neither rich nor poor. | e. Christians should seek mediocrity, neither rich nor poor. | (5) Because I want status, prestige, and power | (6) Because I want to be saved | (7) Because I want to be religious | (8) Because I want my husband/wife/children/parents to turn out right | (9) Because I was brought up in church, and it's my custom/habit | The Right Reasons for Coming to Church | (1) Because it is an evidence of true salvation. | (2) God commands me to go to church, and it should be my custom. | (3) It was the example left to us by the NT church and first century Christians. | (4) Church provides me with the opportunity to identify with Christ as my Savior. | (5) Church provides me with an opportunity to serve God by serving my brothers in Christ. | (6) Church provides me with the context to benefit from spiritually gifted ministers. | (7) Church provides me with the avenue to properly worship God. | (8) To comply with other commandments in my Christian life, I must do so in the context of church. | (9) Church facilitates the growth of my faith, the holiness of my life, and the purity of my doctrine.
Read the article: Getting People to faithfully integrate (There are several related studies in pdf downloads on this page).
