Benishek votes to continue tax breaks for oil companies

Benishek is a liar when he says he wants to reduce spending. What he really means is that he only wants to reduce spending for programs that assist the poor, that protect food and drug safety, that repair aging infrastructure, provide funds for pell grants, unemployment, headstart, etc. All the while he votes to fund military sponsorship of NASCAR, fund military programs that even the pentagon does not want, and fund corporate welfare for oil companies.

Every industry of every size in this country is both attacked by, over-regulated by, over-taxed by AND subsidized by (!) government. That is, by rotten politicians with an angle. Why the apparently inconsistent taking away and giving back? On one hand political goons inside the Beltway have, for decades upon decades, been quietly passing out favors and subsidies to every industry of every size (with M-illions of dollars) in exchange for industry’s campaign contributions. (Industry “contributes” much, much more in donations to Democrats than to Republicans because U.S. Democrat voters vastly outnumber Republicans.)

When these political goons get through giving them our tax dollars, with the other hand they over-tax U.S. industry (by B-illions of dollars) so they’ll have a collective extra trillion or two to pay for wasteful programs they then use to buy the votes needed to get re-elected. And the beat goes on. (35% of personal American income now comes from govt. – AKA, vote-buying politicians – in the form of Soc. Sec., Medicare, unemployment benefits, etc.

We sent Dr. Benishek to D.C. to do something about all this and I believe he will – in due course, God bless him. However, in the meantime it’s pure phony-baloney to chastize him for voting FOR recent oil industry subsidies. That’s because at this point in the evil game whereby our “public servants” mess with every inch of the economy, it’s pure hypocrisy to chastize him without calling on EVERY politician in both parties to stop all subsidies to all the other thousands of industries that have been sucked in to playing ball with Washington. Industry will have to be weaned off of subsidies just as we must wean politicians off of playing handout city in exchange for perks, power and pensions by voting them out of office.

Be mad at all subsidies and call on the other 434 representatives and 100 senators, not just Dr. Dan, to stop this fiscal madness so we can finally get this train wreck of an economy back to free market principles. The free market, not give-away socialism, made the U.S. the best nation in all history and it’s still our only hope to beat poverty, to decrease the cost of health care and, in general, to insure a future for our kids.