With all due respect to my liberal friends in the press, you need to get clear about one simple fact:

Tax Cuts are not an “expense” to the government, they are an expense reduction (aka STIMULANT) to tax payers.

I felt compelled to point this out - yet again - since today’s news is that the cost of the “stimulus” (ahem) plan might “grow in cost” due to some tax cuts being proposed on the Senate side of the bill.

The problem with defining tax cuts as an expense to the government is that doing so ignores the fact that the money is not the government’s to begin with.  Taxes are confiscated from citizens at the threat of incarceration and other penalties.  Without the economic activity of the citizenry, that money wouldn’t exist to begin with.

So, do yourself a favor, my friend:  Any time you see a news story defining something as “costing” the government money, find out whether it’s because the government is spending more money (which is a cost) or whether it’s because the government is taking less of your money (which is not their cost).

Remember:  The money is yours.  Don’t let the government redefine it in any other way.

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