April 14, 2011
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Dear Senate Joint Committee on Finance Members
The unjust redistribution of wealth in the State of Wisconsin must stop. The state does not exist to provide for the needs of individuals — especially at the expense of other individuals! Benevolence is NOT a part of your job. Benevolence is reserved for individuals, families, businesses, charitable groups, and churches. As we have seen, it is way too easy for the state to spend other people’s money for “good causes”. That is not your role and it is not your money to give away so freely!
It is the role of the state to protect all individuals from external forces which prevent each of us from enjoying our individual pursuits of life, liberty, and happiness. This should be our common desire as citizens. This goal should not allow one person or group to petition the government for free meals, free college education, free transportation, or free housing via forced diminishing of another person’s wealth. The government needs to stop confiscating wealth from some of it citizens to give to others. Theft in any form is wrong.I personally visited the capitol during the protests, and I listened to your hearings at State Fair Park on the 11th. There were many citizens –and some non-citizens!–asking that their particular handouts not be cut. There were very few present that spoke of true individual rights or of the costs these handouts are to the taxpayer. I am sure that most of the property owners and taxpayers–most of the people you represent–were busy working so they could afford to provide for their own meals, education, transportation and housing; not to mention their high Wisconsin taxes. Please remember that you are to represent those people; not just the few that clamor loudly with fists raised for their own interests.
We voted for Governor Scott Walker and we support his budget bill and the collective bargaining bill. We have waited for decades to have representatives of principle and moral character to put forth a budget that would turn our state around financially. Representatives that would stop the government from destroying the character of our citizens–either by unjustly taking from them or by wrongfully giving to them that which is not theirs. The demise of a republic is achieved when standards and principles are ignored, providing opportunity for groups to organize so as to give themselves pocketbook advantages at the cost of others.
We thank those of you that supported the collective bargaining reform, and we respectfully ask that you fully support the budget bill.
May God have mercy on our State of Wisconsin,
