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The Inverse Relationship between Fiscal Responsibility and Socialism
By sage of monticello | August 2, 2007
Yesterday I wrote a post about the philosophies on human nature underlying the conservative and liberal political ideologies.
Liberals believe that the exercise of Western-styled freedom through political rights misconstrues human nature in a way that makes man self-interested. In order to correct the misconstruing of man’s nature, liberals seek to remove what separates “man from himself”, which essentially means the removal of rights as understood within the Western political tradition, i.e. no more religion, no more private property, etc.
This explains two things: The liberals’ persistent attack on religion and economic freedom.
One of the ways liberals remove the freedoms that allegedly separate man is through progressive taxation and wealth redistribution. The goal is for everyone to generally have the same stuff as everyone else. This way private property will no longer separate one man from another. The vision is for man to live in community amongst other man with each need provided for by the master-planned community (government).
This vision is apparent today in the health care proposals made by the Democrat Presidential candidates, the current funding impasse over SCHIP, and some of the veto threats made by President Bush.
The liberals want everyone to have the same government-run health care; the liberals want to redistribute your wealth through progressive taxation and wealth redistribution programs like SCHIP. This is founded in their philosophy as well as in their interest in winning elections. In other words, some Democrats actually believe what they say, while others only say what they need to in order to get elected.
Yet conservatives (in general) have the audacity to fight for freedom, traditional Western political values, and for the ruggedly individualistic conception of human nature that has made America so great.
In this fight our greatest tool has been and will be fiscal responsibility. Look at what it did for Ronald Reagan…
And it makes sense that fiscal responsibility is our greatest tool. If the socialists’ goal is for government to tax and spend to correct the inequalities our misconception of human nature has created, then it seems common sense to assume the counter-play would be to not tax and not spend.
It is very simple: as fiscal responsibility increases, government redistributes less, and if government redistributes less, socialism is left without a tool to attack with and attempt to undo the principles upon which we are founded.
So, although the heart of conservativism is found in its enduring love for freedom, its shield can be found at the present time in a pen held by our President.
Not only is the President philosophically consistent with the founding principles of this nation if he wields his veto pen in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Not only is government most effective and efficient when it is small and limited.
But also, by vetoing rejecting Socialism and exercising fiscal discipline the President will put the Republican Party back on track. For electoral sucess Republicans must recapture the label of the fiscally conservative party in the minds of the American people, and it begins with walking the walk.
Fiscal responsibility in any shape or form, be it veto or filibuster, is a shield we must fear to raise in preventing the slow creep of socialism into our land of freedom and the opportunity derived from it.
Fiscal responsibility: It is right, it is effective, and it wins elections. Can’t ask for much more than that…
Topics: Liberals, socialism, liberalism, fiscal responsibility |
