We, the People have a spending problem

Editor, The Sun:

We, the People, have a spending problem and all the tariffs and taxes in the world won’t solve that.
We, the People, require overseas entities to buy our Treasury bonds to fund our multi-TRILLION dollar budget deficits.
We, the People, have been spending beyond our means for quite sometime and we have turned a deaf ear and blind eye to our government overspending for way too long.
There are, basically, two ways to tackle overspending- address the trade deficit (tariffs), which is a short-term tactic, or address the budget deficit, which is a long-term strategy.
We, the People, have to upend and revise the Welfare state. Improvements such as work requirements for Medicaid or reforming the Social Security disability eligibility, or reforming school lunch programs will go a long way. Why do many folks, who don’t pay taxes get a refund at the end of the year? That makes zero sense.There is no such thing as a free lunch. Nothing is free. The government has no money. The government only spends what it robs from us. Our elected officials “bribe” voters by robbing us of our earnings. And don’t believe, for one minute, one political brand spends more while another political brand is frugal. Both political parties are built on our earnings. Both political parties are complicit in overspending. So are you and I.
We buy food, pay rent, support our families with money Washington DC has already taxed. Then, we pay taxes buying clothes, gasoline and other vital things with money that has been already taxed. We pay insurance and property taxes with money that has been taxed. Those who have squirreled away money for retirement do so with earnings already taxed and then when the savings are withdrawn, in our golden years, it is taxed again.
Businesses are taxed on a quarterly basis and then at the end of the year so don’t believe what you may hear the businesses get breaks.
Don’t get me started on property taxes.
We, the People have a spending problem. We let our Board of County Commissioners initiate projects because of matching funds (federal and state) which is derived from taxing you and I. We are part of the larger problem and we have to cease.

Robert Franco
Surf Road