Why give Democrats more tax money to burn? They’ll just waste it again or let their friends steal it |
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Why give Democrats more tax money to burn? They’ll just waste it again or let their friends steal it
Democrats sometimes win the battle of ideas with big promises of what government should do. They lose the war when we see what it actually does.
One of the GOP’s core principles is: The government can’t be trusted with your money. Even when it’s doing the jobs only the government can do, like the military or the police, there’s always waste and people gaming the system, from $900 hammers to excessive overtime.
It gets so much worse when you make the government bigger and design it around giving people free stuff and building things the market wouldn’t buy.
Democrats get elected promising this, then keep reminding us why they can’t be trusted.
The latest example comes from former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal preschool program. As The Post has reported, the city has doled out $99.3 million and counting to rent 28 buildings for new preschools. Half a decade and two mayors later, none of them opened.
It’s easy to blame this on de Blasio. But it’s a nationwide pattern, especially in deep-blue cities and states where voters........