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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what if we have an old bridge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bridges go though a life cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They age and wear out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they become unsafe, we close them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we blow them up and build them over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old bridges don’t put people at risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They might slow down traffic, but that’s just part of the price of the bridge life cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have never believed that every bridge should always be in like new condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be a waste of money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we worked on them all the time to maintain them like new, we would not be able to use them as much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we had a prospering economy, we could probably take better care of the bridges, but taxing and spending just to fix bridges will not fix the economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe that government taxing the economy and using the money to stimulate the economy has the unintended consequence of putting a drag on the economy because the money taken out of the private sector does more harm than the money added for stimulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is axiomatic that raising taxes during a recession makes the recession worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">When we have a hurricane or other natural disaster, people expect the government to step in and help us deal with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems to me that the government is assuming that same role in regard to this recession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like cleaning up after a hurricane, the government feels they need to fix the economy as though the recession were a natural disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is incredible hubris for government to think they have a bag of tricks to heal a faltering economy by creating new markets through taxing and spending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best way to heal the economy is for the government to stop trying to heal it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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