Let's start with charity. My wife and I give a lot to charity. In addition, we spend a lot with local restaurants. During Covid I upped my tipping to 25% as I knew the reduce hours were hurting many servers... If Biden's proposed tax increases combined with those in California go into effect, my freedom to contribute to charities and people I choose will be hurt by the government taking more money from me and giving it to whoever they think deserves it. Sharing the cost of government and participating in programs aimed at helping the mentally and physically disabled and even those who need a safety net to bridge a short term unexpected economic event is something that I support. But redistributing income as a general role of government runs head on with the freedom to spend the money one earns as one sees fit.
I helped fund public schools for the benefit of children having access to education. I do not fund schools so the state can teach values and philosophies I do not agree with. Again freedom includes the right to raise your children according to your values not those of government.
In the past, I got to choose what health care benefits I thought I needed, now I have to buy a health care plan the government thinks I need.
I recognize that other people feel differently than I do, so specifically what I want is for the Federal government to minimize its footprint in our daily lives starting with taxation and money printing. Allow states to respond to the citizens of their state. This competition between states will allow those people that are comfortable with government spending their money to migrate there and those people that are uncomfortable with government spending their money to move to states that spend less of it.
More importantly, the Federal government should be prohibited from printing money to pay for things. It is simply another form of taxation. The exception would be to fund wars of self defense with bipartisan support.
Money equals freedom. The more money the government takes and directs as it sees fit, the less freedom I have to spend money as I see fit. Perhaps selfishly but that is my right, I am inclined to spend my money helping people locally or on charities whose purpose I support. I don't get the freedom to make those choices when government takes my money.
This response up to now largely focuses on how taxes impact my freedom by taking away the freedom of deciding how I want to spend the money I earned and putting it in the hands of government who may or may not do things I agree with.
But the failure of Democrats to address censorship by social networks who get legal protection so that they can function as a utility of free speech is another example. I got censored several times by Facebook for printing truths about Covid which were inconsistent with Democratic "thinking" like on the origins of Covid. Why is that okay. If they want government protection, then they like the government have an obligation to protect my "free speech" not censor it. When they fail in that duty, government should give them one of two options give up the protection and become "publishing houses" or stop censorship of legal speech.
I am not a gun owner, but categorically believe in 2nd Amendment. Perhaps supporters of curtailing the 2nd Amendment should be forced to live in homes in remote areas of the Southwest near the border. See how well they sleep at night knowing the government is knee capping those securing the border. Biden doesn't care about their ability to defend themselves, he is from Dela Where?
