"Nothing" Is Made in the USA

Why is so little made in the USA anymore?

Karl Marx (Mr Obama's patron saint) would say profit is the alienation of the value of labor from the laborer. He reasoned that eventually the cost of a product is parceled out to someone, not something; no thing would have any use for money. Money eventually has to go to some person, be that the laborer, or the owner (presumably a capitalist), or government as taxes.

For years, the American Left has sold the idea that the only way to establish social equity is the tax away the portion the business owner gets. All this time, the Left has added to the worker's tax burden. In my home state of Washington, there are three different taxes imposed on the employer for each worker. Each tax must be calculated and paid separately. You already know about income tax.

This has to add to the cost of production, and thereby add to the price of the product. More expenses makes things more expensive. The cost of taxes are hidden in the price of the product. When the government becomes too greedy in pursuit of their own lavish (unearned) lifestyles, the high taxes they charge will cut the consumption of domestic product.

America is in such a nose-down spiral. Greedy Leftists demand high taxes so America don't produce very much for domestic use. The perpetual imbalance of payments in international trade spring from the fact that American product has to be priced to pay for a bloated government.

Americans aren't lazy; Americans see little incentive for hard work and would rather get out of the taxable economy. Even the best workers in the world will balk at producing a product if much of their earnings go to taxes. The employer and investors likewise see return evaporate to taxes.

The American public is alienated from its own production by the money grubbing Leftist politicians. Overbearing government made "Made in USA" a rarity.

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But wait! That's not all!

Just like the money of the price goes to someone, so every tax takes from someone. If that someone has the money to pay taxes (that is, not a net beneficiary of government taxes) if figures that person is producing something. We can follow the taxes just like we can follow the money.

Nearly everyone pays property tax. If you rent an apartment from your landlord, you must realize the property tax the landlord pays comes out of your rent. If proper tax goes up, so will your rent. You pay the tax. And roughly one third to one half of your rent goes away as taxes.

Don't figure your landlord is greedy, just because the politicians tell you so. Landlords are in a very tax sensitive business. If you want to find out what home ownership is all about, buy a place. If you can master the difficult business of staying out of default, more power to you.

Sales taxes hurt a different way. Often called a consumption tax, sales (and excise) taxes cut incentive to earn because they make spending less pleasant. Workers are left scrambling to make the basics, like food and clothing, not to mention property tax bloated shelter.

Finally, government regulates. Basic levels of regulation are necessary for an ordered society, like laws against violent crime. But modern American Leftist politicians have raised government regulations to a bizarre liturgy imposed upon businesses and people. Witness the stupid regulation the EPA imposed prohibiting a landlord from painting more than 25 square feet of his property without lead abatement licensees. Get the March 2009, EPA publication EPA-740-K-09-003, or visit the EPA lead site at http://www.epa.gov/lead/index.html

Implicitly, according to the EPA, landlords are cavalier about the safety of their tenants. Lanlords willy nilly stir up lead druing painting so their tenants can suffer all kinds of health problems and not be able to pay the rent. Then landlords get the joy of evicting the tenant. The EPA publication does not go that far, but its fair to speculate why they add regulation we have lived without for centuries.

This bit of arrogance is not even a tax, but it makes the job of providing housing more expensive. Given the added expense, privately supplied housing will start to go away. Give that prediction a few years to play out. Government controlled housing will become the only useable choice.

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There is a point when government passes beyond what is socially useful and becomes burden on its own. Regulation and taxation become the ends. Arrogant taxation and regulation are the incentive of despotic power. We are there, campers.

Health Care Underhaul

Expect the action to pick up. Up 'til now, all this plotting has been in secret. The "Democratic" Party is in the public phase of ramming government control of health care access down the throat of the American people. What new? Nothing.

"Higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government. The American people know that is not reform," Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Republican leader, said.

"Reid, D-Nev., wrote the legislation with White House aides during weeks of secretive negotiations, selecting elements from two committee-passed bills with the aim of securing the necessary 60 votes in a Senate debate that will be decisive for Obama's health care agenda."

AP story

Americans have enjoyed the best standard of living, because hard work was rewarded. Americans have enjoyed the best standard of health care, because private right has been observed.

Only when the "Democratic" Party's donors, the American Bar Association, started screwing with American medicine, things started to go bad. So the ABA whistled and the "Democratic" Party came loping with its tongue lolling out.

The rape of the American public continues.

Government Health Control is Murder.

Obama's MurderCare

It looks like we may get government allocated health care, Obama's MurderCare.

I have tried contacting the Senators and Representatives by email, telephone and fax. They respond with a yawn and a "Screw you! You'll get the crumbs from our table," attitude.

Government controlled health care inevitably leads to higher death rates from treatable diseases. For example, the US has the highest cancer survival rate with present private system. [Source] If we get the Obama's MurderCare, then as soon as sufficient statistics are gathered to show the increase in death rates, these authoritarian politicians must be charged with murder.

Under American style federalism, the states have separate powers to govern, which are derived independent of the federal power. A person may avoid violation of federal law and still be a felon under state law.

The states have laws against constructive commission of murder, i.e. creating the circumstance for murder without actually pulling the trigger. An example is a solicitation of murder. Most states also have laws which make conspiracy (or negligence) a felony if the death actually occurs.

When a death occurs in Obama's MurderCare system, the charge may be applied to the Senator or Representative from the state where the murder occurred, provided the Senator or Representative voted for Obama's MurderCare system.

Government Health Control is Murder.

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Someone told me the name Barrack means bless. Can you still say that man's name? I think I'll call him Barry, or maybe Beri-beri.