Driving home from work recently, I heard a congressman refer to tax cuts as “spending.”

If your employer, for some reason, decreases your wages, would you consider that to be an increase in household spending?Would you go to work and expect your supervisors to be grateful of the gift that you bestowed upon them by allowing them to keep more of your money? How long do you think you would keep your job with that kind of attitude?

The government is the employee of the American taxpayers and we are their supervisors. By referring to tax cuts as “spending,” they are telling us that our income belongs to them, and anything they allow us to keep is a gift.

Why do we allow them to speak to us this way?

John Kieffer, Turner