Yesterday, liberal commentator Alan Colmes said that "Tax day is a day to celebrate, not protest." He explained that the freedom we enjoy comes at a cost and that cost is in tax dollars. This thinking exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Tea Parties were about. You see, you can fight for freedom, but you cannot BUY it. What we are buying is government programs. These are the same programs that, when needed, can be purchased privately. But, the government likes to offer them at triple the cost. First, you have to foot the bill for the actual programs. Second, you have to pay for the government bureaucracy. Third, and most disgusting, you have to surrender your freedom to choose to the governments whims. For a country that loves to enact anti monopoly laws, we are funding the biggest monopoly in history, with our freedom.
So, no, Alan, we don't have a problem funding the military to protect our freedom. We have a problem footing the bill for gratuitous spending that harms our children's futures at the same time it sucks away our freedom.
Unfortunately, for liberals, Mr. Colmes is the classiest of his kind. To see how others handled the Tea Parties take a look at this eyebrow-raising article.
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