Big Government’s Defenders

To the Editor:

After four budget votes of No, we’re back where we were after vote three.

Why are the selectmen and Legislative Council members taking a piecemeal, foot dragging approach? Why are they allowing the intended “chaos” of the IPN voters who say that their vote of No, actually meant Yes to influence their actions, resulting in marginalizing both the constitutional principle of “majority vote rule” and “sovereignty of the people”?

After No vote three, instead of cutting, they added money back to the school side of the budget. This is like Justice Robert’s vote…, in-spite of the majority’s wants or direction to cut government growth, it’s a defense of big government.

Everyone understands that we all (including government at every level) overspent, from the year 2000 through 2008, until the bubble burst. Both business and taxpayers had to take large, painful cuts… but government at all levels has refused to share that pain! Taxpayers with homes are down 40 percent, some have lost them, while government has actually grown, and our town’s school budget has grown by 11.5 percent.

Most people are saying: Our money is gone and we’re broke. We can’t afford to give you more.

You see, government can only create jobs in the public (government) sector. However, government cannot generate the wealth that sustains them. That task is left to our nation’s producers and workers in the private sector (the rest of us). So it stands to reason that when taxpayers and business in the private sector do well, government does too — providing it doesn’t get too greedy with its tax bite. But tax bites of any size, when you are in a depression and the worst financial crisis of the last 80 years, is not the answer.

“Real Clear Politics” writer Robert Trancinski said this last week: “When government somehow turns profit makers into the bad guys, and taxes them and the people into economic stagnation, but continues to increase spending, a point is inevitably reached when there’s simply not enough money generated by one to support the other.” This should be obvious.

With America’s bottom line and that of our state submerged in a sea of red ink, the majority wonders why government thinks they are still entitled? And, why does Newtown insist on increasing spending over last year when we are still in such dire times?

Christel Kormanik

178 Hanover Road, Newtown                                            July 1, 2012