Don’t Tinker With

The Free Enterprise System

The following letter to Fifth District Congressman Chris Murphy has been received for publication.

Dear Chris Murphy:

“Filthy Rich” implies there is a stigma attached to being wealthy. Politicians who campaign to “Spread the wealth” through laws, enforced by bureaucratic regulations, ignore the fact that the rich are already spreading the wealth. Build a mansion, and see the myriad of people who benefit from the employment. Is it better to work at government-created projects? Doing that creates a bondage mentality. Moses said to the Egyptian Pharaoh, “Set my people free.” This should be, for our government. “Set the people free.” Is the security of bondage preferable to the hardships of freedom? Moses took 40 years to free the minds of his people so they could gain the willpower to attain the Promised Land. For free enterprise to thrive, governments (local, state, and federal) regulation has to be as noninvasive as possible. Any union or association within any corporation, group or in government should not have any external association with anything outside that corp, co., or government group and its sole purpose is to help management to do what they do. Build a better mouse trap and sell it, teach the young or whatever the purpose of the business is. One example is the growth of unions, which were to benefit the employees and not to enrich themselves, external to the workplace. Another example is to have a “Pay Czar” regulating what corporate executives are allowed to earn. In the overall economy, executive earnings are no bigger than a single grain of sand in the desert.

The free enterprise system is extremely complex as it works in our large society. But its principles are very simple, just don’t ever try to change it. Every time an economist has changed it, it has not changed it or it’s done the reverse of what they said. Remember high taxes on large luxury cruise ships for the wealthy as a sales tool in 1980. Many lost jobs because of it, it was repealed.

You need no education to have common sense, many politicians don’t have it or they are lying to us so they have power and riches. The United States of America founders had common sense and were highly educated and put in place a Constitution and Bill of Rights that our present leaders are not following.

Paul E. Allen

President of Logic Corporation

70 Mt Pleasant Road, Newtown                                      April 7, 2010