Wild spending…not legal, says reader
To the editor:
The wild Washington spending, which obviously is morally wrong, has a legal twist to it that no body seems to want to address.
Factually, this enormous debt that we’re building will indeed have to be repaid by generations to come by way of huge taxation. Our children and our children’s children will be saddled with a debt that they had no opportunity to agree or disagree with. They had no voice in the matter and they will pay big time for our recklessness. To me, this sounds like taxation without representation.
Taxation without representation was at the center of the ideological underpinnings of the American Revolution. We justified our separation from England and we fought a bloody war because we knew that taking money from people who had no voice in the propriety of the assessment was morally and legally unfair. It was then and it is now shameful, unfair, irresponsible and a practice that those being victimized will look back at and see us as being a society of ‘fat cats’ without conscience. The Washington wildness needs to end. We need to stop building a burden for those yet to come. And we need to exercise responsible professionalism…starting now!
Dick Kalfus
Cape Coral