Using ordinary logic, you are right, but you are forgetting that we’re talking about Washington, DC where tax breaks are called “tax expenditures”, that is, the Feds think of all those little deductions and credits they sprinkle across the tax forms as “spending.” Using this logic, the government is already spending money on our retirements by giving us tax breaks under the 401(k), IRA and other tax-incentivized accounts. All those middle-class millionaires who built large savings with tax-deferred growth (or are expecting untaxed withdrawal) “owe” the Federal government which has been “spending” its “revenues” to incentivize their retirements. It is only “fair” that the Feds might call on the beneficiaries of these programs to “do their part” to avert the “crisis” in Social Security, the deficit and the Federal debt.
You can all pay me $5 when the talking points start coming out 5 years from now and it is word-for-word as I’ve predicted here… I’ll become a millionaire.
Teaching them how to grow their own. My own produce-filled fields as you put it, are not so visible either. There’s a 15 foot high concrete wall between my field and the rest of the world. None of my nieghbors know that the greenhouses are back there, or that my entire back yard is filled in such a manner.
The only indicator they would have is that while they are getting skinnier, I am staying the same. I have no issue with employing a defensive arena of employee’s paid in food, seed, and knowledge, if thing’s get as bad I have have hinted at. Once thing’s settle down, or if a person is acting rational I have no issue with helping them in a manner that will not put me at risk… I may be a cold rational man with my reservation’s on human worth, but I am not heartless.