By Jerry Newcombe, CP Op-Ed Contributor
At the current time, we as a nation are monstrously in debt and borrowing an increasing kind of off the backs of our kids and grandchildren. Yet Alexander Hamilton, our nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, said in Federalist35 that our financial system will work finest when now we include much less pointless laws.
He notes: “It could perhaps perhaps be demonstrated that among the finest system of finance will persistently be the least burdensome.” He says what we need is “a primarily appropriate order of the energy of taxation.”
Speedily forward to nowadays. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and his whiz kids at DOGE (the Department of Authorities Efficiency), are uncovering base misuse of our fascinating-earned tax bucks by old administrations.
Steal USAID, which grow to be established over 60 years ago to make U.S. foreign model aid from the American of us.
Most Americans, in the event that they knew one thing about the company, thought we had been providing food or desirable water to impoverished nations, but no.
What has been published is base. U.S. Congressman Brian Mast from Florida has released a laundry checklist of base uses of our tax bucks, supposedly to lend a hand with “model aid.” This checklist entails USAID funding as wisely as that of the Impart Department.
Mast notes that these are just among the systems our tax bucks are at work around the sector — on epic of of the left’s hijacking of USAID and the Impart Department:
As Gary Bauer puts it: “They are selling anti-Christian values, including LGBTQ ideology and abortion worldwide.”
Half of a million bucks spent to promote atheism in Nepal? The Founding Fathers said The United States grow to be founded on the thought that God is the provision of our rights. Why are we spreading unbelief in assorted locations? To this day, our national motto is “In God We Have confidence.”
Mast also lists: “$425,622 to lend a hand Indonesian espresso corporations change into more local climate and gender pleasant by USAID.” And on it goes. Focus on this at the same time as you’re doing your taxes this yr.
Secretary of Impart Marco Rubio is now the head of USAID, and he said final week he’s paring that staff down from 10,000 to 300. That’s admire Gideon’s navy in the Bible. There had been 10,000 eager to attend, but God had Gideon easy all of it the very best plan down to handiest 300, and He gave them the victory.
The founders of The United States could perhaps be appalled that this is how a ways now we include fallen from their vision of restricted executive, primarily primarily based on God-given rights and the consent of the governed. I never consented, nor would I consent, to such disagreeable wishes.
No surprise President Trump is making an try to defund this wasteful spending.
In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned the contemporary nation to include a look at out about the national debt: “As a in point of fact distinguished supply of power and security, love public credit. One methodology of conserving it is miles to expend it as sparingly as doable.” Yet we’re now not utilizing public credit “sparingly” in any respect.
James Madison said, “I trip on the thought that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Authorities a elevated curse than in any assorted.”
Thomas Jefferson also gave some stable warnings about our financial system. In his First Inaugural Address, our third president acknowledged, “a wise and frugal Authorities, which shall restrain men from injuring every other, shall fade them otherwise free to manipulate their own pursuits of alternate and improvement, and shall now not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Here is the sum of upright executive.”
Thomas Jefferson once said, “To ranking our independence, we mustn’t let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we escape into such cash owed, we needs to be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we are in a position to forestall the executive from losing the labor of the of us, under the pretense of caring for them, they are going to be delighted.”
And to evaluate fragment of our debt nowadays is on epic of of these left-hover boondoggles. One can handiest take into consideration what the Founding Fathers would take into consideration our bloated executive nowadays.
Jerry Newcombe, D.Min., is the executive director of the Windfall Forum, an outreach of D. James Kennedy Ministries, where Jerry also serves as senior producer and an on-air host. He has written/co-written 33 books, including George Washington’s Sacred Fire (with Windfall Forum founder Peter Lillback, Ph.D.) and What If Jesus Had By no plan Been Born? (with D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.). www.djkm.org? @newcombejerry www.jerrynewcombe.com
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