Thought for the Day
...[T]he earth belongs in usufruct to the living…[N]o man can by natural right oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the paiment [sic] of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might during his own life, eat up the usufruct of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living, which would be reverse of our principle . . .
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789
Today we might substitute “country” for “lands.” Yet a recent study the Congressional Budget Office — a creature of the Congress itself — reported that for the last half century every time Congress has extracted an additional incremental tax dollar from our pockets it has managed to spend a dollar and a half. Think of it: A Dollar in, a Dollar and a half out; a Billion in, a Billion and a half out; a Trillion in . . . you get the idea. This continues to place our unborn children further in debt — a debt run up willy-nilly as a legacy of our careerist Congress, in the atmosphere created by Liberal Elitism, and one hundred, eighty degrees opposite from Jefferson’s dictum. — Rense Johnson
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