Of course, these slick-talking politicians are not economically illiterate – they are intentionally deceiving the public. They can not argue against the fact that tax rate cuts have benefited our entire country, so they are using the opportunity of a horrific natural disaster to push their dream of a socialized economy on America.

The last thing Congress should do now is take money out of the pockets of hurricane victims starting to rebuild their lives, or out of the pockets of people already working on driving this positive economy. Cutting tax rates is not rocket science – it is economic common sense. When people have more of their own money, they spend more, save more, invest more and donate more. More government spending of our tax dollars is not the solution, it is the problem.

Our elected officials in Congress must stop picking winners and losers with the tax code and fattening their favorite constituencies at the pork trough. Congress should be considering ways to supercharge the economy so everybody wins. Making the 2003 tax cuts permanent and eliminating the death tax would be a good start. Totally replacing the income tax code with a national consumption tax would be a game-changing and game-winning economic touchdown for all U.S. citizens.

When an idea such as replacing the income tax code with a consumption tax is brought before Congressional Democrats and even some Republicans the response is usually to the effect of, “That’s too big of a bite for Congress to do all at once.” Let me get this straight. Natural disasters hit us in big bites. Terrorists hit us in big bites. Social Security and Medicare are going to hit us in big bites in a few short years. Yet Congress wants to nibble around the edges of protecting us from an economic disaster that will make Katrina look like a picnic in the park.

Congress does not act until there is a crisis, and even then it is usually a weak or knee-jerk reaction. In the coming economic crisis Congress will not be able to send a few truckloads of taxpayer dollars to save us, and we can not rebuild our economic infrastructure with loans from our enemies. Congressional Democratic leaders are preaching deceptive economics because they think their blind followers – informed through their puppet mainstream media – are economically stupid.

Republicans would be wise to use this opportunity to show common sense economic leadership. They would also be wise to stop underestimating the intelligence of most voters to understand that Democrats are attempting to force us into economic collapse. If Republicans don’t lead, while Democrats continue to deceive, the next generation will not be able to recover from the damage caused by hurricane-sized spending and disastrous tax increases.