Martin Pegg

It's time to feed the goose again. Jim Rohn suggests this is a good way of looking at our tax burden. It's the taxes we pay that provide the structure we have to generate the immense wealth that we do in America.

If you want the golden eggs, you must feed the goose.

And I have no problem with this as far as it goes. But we're feeding that goose to pay a debt. $64,000 a person. This is twice the median income for full time workers in the US, but we only have 126 million of those.

And our debt is growing, and thanks to Mr. Trump and his tax cuts, our National Debt is the highest it's ever been at 107% of GDP.

It's nice to have a little more in your paycheck, but my impression is that we're just taking another advance on the credit card, and the people who will benefit the most are the people who have the most, which on the one hand makes sense, but on another is just going to increase the growing gap between rich and poor, which is known to lead to instability.

And maybe I just have a personal problem with Mr. Trump here. And this is it. He has a history of driving his empire to the edge of collapse, and counting on being too big to fail to save himself. But this is no way to run a country. And it's being too big to fail that cost us hundreds of billions in 2008, with an overall financial cost of $22 Trillion.

If we ran our personal lives the way Mr. Trump has his businesses, or our bankers our banks, we wouldn't be extended any more credit. And we can't sell our name the way Mr. Trump does his.

Yes, we do have to find a way to invest in our selves, and ease imbalances in the way we do business, and not let foreign manipulation increase our burden.

But first we have to be responsible with what we have, and I'm not convinced that our current executive and class of lawmakers has the will to be this.