As a rash of new taxes are eyed by our government in light of the faltering economy, I can’t help but wonder why no one seems to understand what a budget cut is. Now Oregon wants to tax there constituents on there mileage. To make the this worse, they have no plans to get rid of the current gas tax and the new plan would take a paltry $20 million to implement.

Yup, lets spend an additional $20 million to implement a new tax as opposed to simply cutting superfluous programs. After reading about this new tax, I decided to check out the state agencies for the wonderfully innovative state of Oregon.   According to there State site there are 155 different state agencies. Now I’m sure that there are vital agencies on that page that help the state to run with optimal efficiency. However, are you seriously going to tell me that there is no possible way to cut spending in any of those agencies?

Look, here is my issue with all of the new taxes that our “big brother” seems to think are a good idea.

1.) There is no end in site to the taxes they can levy. If we can tax soda because it’s unhealthy then we can tax anything else that can be shown to be unhealthy. ANYTHING.

2.) There is no limit to what the government can say about the way we live. This is no longer about the good of the population. You can say all you want that it will save money and create a healthier populace, but the bottom is line is juts that…the Bottom Line. This is about the government making money to cover their inability to control spending.

3.) These taxes are not going to change anything. They never have and they never will. The government adjusts it’s spending to match it’s income. Well, that isn’t entirely true. The government actually manages to outspend it’s revenue on a consistent basis. Then it uses that unbalanced budget to rationalize new taxes. Until the government can learn how to control it’s spending and stop creating new and useless agencies, nothing will change because of these new taxes. People will not become “green” because of the tax, the environment will not become clean and stable because of the tax. The populace will not become healthy or skinny because of the new taxes. So why are they being passed?

The only answer that makes sense is money, at least that is the one that scares me the least.