Feb 11, 2018 2 min read

“Where’s the money going to come from?”

That is the most frequently asked question in these parts, particularly when it comes to promoting the general welfare. Examples include the longstanding need for a local stormwater management system, and the anemic support for the needs of our Flenniken Public Library in Carmichaels.

In 2016, Donald Trump successfully ran on a staunchly conservative platform. Two of his proposals were very popular with his supporters: tax reform, commonly called tax cuts; and a wall on the border with Mexico. During the first year of his administration, the president succeeded in bringing about a tax cut, although it is a very lopsided one. The tax cuts grant an unchanging lion’s share of the benefits to our oligarchy, but merely casts alms to the masses of working-and-middle-class peons.

Mexico’s reaction to Trump’s proposed wall is understandably anything but congenial. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, responded by saying, “We are not going to pay for any (expletive deleted) wall!” Since then, Trump has been twisting the arm of Congress to cough up the money.

Well now, isn’t it odd that conservatives are not jumping up and down screaming, “Where’s the money going to come from?” The recent tax cuts will greatly restrict what narrow-minded conservatives wrongly see as a free flow of tax funds to a monstrous trough where liberals get money to squander.

Do you suppose the money will come from Mexico, the oligarchy or from the peons? If I had a spare two bits, I’d bet on the latter group.

Paul Lagojda

Cumberland Township