Tuesday Night at Taco Tuesday, one of the women there told me the following joke. She asked me whether I knew what happened to a liar when he gets to hell. He’ll just lie there too.
I grow frustrated at how politicians pit us against one another in polar opposite directions depending on their agenda. Before the election, they pit us against one another, and then after the election they rile us up and ask why we can’t get along. While our overt enemies attack from without, they undermine from within, and all the while pass the buck for blame to a victim.
We all know that government is the problem. Yet, the popular rhetoric in news outlets blames the target of government policy (capitalism) for things the government forces them via regulation to do. Then the government claims to come in on its white horse to save us. We see that with oil prices, food prices, and health care costs. Like the proverbial scab that never heals, they cannot leave it alone, and our lives never improve. Whenever in the interests of the public government enacts a policy that raises costs, American consumers foot the bill.
On his May 13th show, Rush Limbaugh pointed out this phenomenon in respect to all the global warming legislation:
In either case, it's going to raise prices, and these prices are not just going to be absorbed. They are going to be passed on, as always, to the end of the line, which is the user, the consumer. And you will have nothing to say about these carbon emissions that these industries are engaging in, but you are going to end up paying for it, all of us are. Under a false premise!
We have nothing to say about the policy, but we bear the burden.
In an earlier post, I explained how companies project costs into the prices of commodities we buy. Every time we “stick it to Big Oil” or “the rich”, in the end every consumer ends up carrying the burden. The intended targets just pass it on, and eventually we are left holding the check.
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