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The American people are complaining about affordability. The prices of groceries, automobiles, movies, clothes, gasoline, rent, mortgage payments, and just about everything else are soaring. Many Americans are having a very difficult time making ends meet.

So what are they doing? They are calling on their federal officials to do something to solve the problem. In the process, though, Americans decline to confront an important point: the affordability problem is rooted in the systems that the American people have bought into existence and to which they remain irrevocably committed.

The affordability problem means that people don’t have enough money to pay for things they wish to buy. Their money just doesn’t go as far as it used to go. There are various reasons for this phenomenon.

One reason is that the government takes an enormous chunk of people’s money through income taxation, including the payroll tax. If people had been free to keep 100 percent of their income, say, for the past 10 years, that would mean a large sum of money that most people would have in savings right now.

Consider how much of the value of their income and savings people have lost in the last 10 years owing to monetary debasement at the hands of the Federal Reserve. That’s because federal officials have inflated the money supply over that period of time in order to help pay the federal government’s expenses.

Consider the enormously high tariffs that President Trump has been imposing on the American people since he took office. Those taxes suck a large amount of money from people’s income and deposit it into the coffers of the federal government.

Why does the federal government do these three things? That’s how it funds America’s welfare-warfare state and all of the deadly, destructive, and very expensive departments, agencies, and programs that are so beloved to the American people.

After all, none of these things are free. They cost money—big money. The government has to pay for them. It pays for them with the money it raises in taxes—income taxes, the inflation tax (yes, inflation is a tax), tariffs, and other taxes.

Oh, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that another way that the feds pay the expenses of the welfare-warfare state, the regulated/managed society, and its deadly and destructive programs is through borrowing. That’s what the $40 trillion national debt is all about. Reluctant to raise taxes to pay for their ever-growing expenses, federal officials simply go out and borrow the money. According to usdebtclock.org, the federal debt per taxpayer now amounts to $360,794. That’s a considerable amount of debt per each American taxpayer.

Of course, there are any number of people who have long cried, “They need to cut spending!” But as we saw with DOGE, that’s easier said than done. The reason? People on the dole will never let go of their dole, and they will fight fiercely to keep it.

As we all know, the recipients of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, subsidies, education grants, and other welfare will fight fiercely for the continuation of their dole. They are not about to let it go, no matter how high taxes have to be raised, how high inflation gets, or how high the national debt grows.

They aren’t the only ones. Consider the enormous military establishment, the vast army of “defense” contractors, the recipients of foreign aid, the bomb manufacturers, the CIA, the NSA, the foreign and domestic military bases, invasions, wars of aggression, occupations, assassinations, bombing campaigns, sanctions, embargoes, blockades, and other elements of the national-security state and its policy of foreign interventionism. It’s all very expensive and there is no reasonable possibility that anyone who receives federal largess as part of all this is going to relinquish it. On the contrary, they all want more. “National security” depends on it, or at least that’s what they say.

The war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, the war on poverty, the war on wealth, the war on Islam, the war on terrorism, the war on communism, the war on Russia, the war on Iran, and other such wars. They all cost a lot of money. The recipients of all that money are not going to willingly give it up.

The reason that DOGE failed to cut federal spending is because the recipients of federal largess proved to be much more powerful than Elon Musk and his merry band of DOGE cost-cutters.

So, where do Americans go from here? They go over the cliff. With that $40 trillion in federal debt (and climbing), it’s not a question of whether but when. As we have long been saying here at FFF, it is impossible to predict when the day of reckoning will arrive. But make no mistake about it: the day of reckoning will arrive. In fact, it might arrive sooner rather than later, judging by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent’s nervous, even desperate, response to the current bond crisis.

The solution to the affordability problem lies not in such silliness as “We need to cut spending” or “We need to get different and better people into public office.” The solution lies in an acknowledgment that the welfare-warfare state, regulated/managed society, national-security state, war on drugs, war on illegal immigrants, monetary central planning, and other features of American statism have failed and need to be dismantled, not reformed, along with the income tax, tariff tax, and inflation tax that fund this immoral and destructive way of life. That’s the way to avoid going off the cliff. It’s also the way to get America back on the right track—toward liberty, peace, prosperity, and harmony.

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