The Democrats in Washington want to monitor every Venmo transaction you have above a few hundred dollars. They want to distinguish between a side hustle you’ve started to fight back against Bidenflation, splitting dinner with friends, or paying your young neighbor to mow your lawn. Hardworking Americans are subjected to IRS scrutiny, and you are one miscalculated payment away from being a criminal mastermind – guilty of tax fraud.
And how passionately elected officials demand transparency under the tax laws to root out corruption, fraud, and abuse in how you report your Venmo transactions. However, much of their transparency is misguided because the enthusiasm suddenly evaporates when it comes to the behemoth that is federal welfare spending.
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Welfare recipients and hardworking Americans are treated dramatically differently by Democrats when it comes to reporting information pertaining to welfare benefits versus taxable income. It is not only ironic but also instructive and predictable. Take a risk, start a business, become successful, and as a Democrat President famously told us, “You didn’t build that.”
But when it comes to food stamps, TANF, government housing, Medicaid, or other welfare programs, Democrats have no urgency to find out how those funds are used, where fraud exists, or whether the money is being invested in a system that works. How else do food stamps for Ohio routinely end up in Florida? If they are being sold on the black market, should we hope they are claiming it as income? And if you’ve been watching the news, Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” is also the land of $9 billion in Medicaid fraud, likely even fraud to terrorist organizations.
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Clearly, welfare recipients should have reporting requirements for how they spend the handouts, but Democrats aren’t interested.
Instead, many politicians prioritize seeking your Venmo transactions while playing a shell game with their misguided attempts at alleviating poverty. Dating back to President Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” Democrats have learned that harvesting votes through the welfare state by making voters dependent upon them for their survival is effective. Electoral success for the Democrat party means leaving its voter base financially defeated and incapable of accomplishing a better life for themselves apart from the Democrat party – keeping people poor to maintain their vote. And poverty also pays for those involved in administering it. Instead of improving the lives of recipients, maintaining the status quo is really the goal, which is why Democrats fight for control of Washington, D.C., the states, and the cities to perpetuate the welfare mindset.
By contrast, monitoring your personal transactions offers no political risk for Democrats and is the welfare state’s funding mechanism. They need higher tax revenue to fund welfare and harvest votes. Hardworking Americans must file quarterly estimates and write checks to the IRS. If they are late or estimate incorrectly, the entrepreneur must pay interest and penalties. Yet no such system monitors the spending habits of welfare recipients. The selective transparency is the inversion of accountability.
Ultimately, the IRS becomes the observer and the hardworking American the criminal suspect. This is not what our Founding Fathers envisioned: It prohibits economic growth and permits a fraudulent welfare system to grow without restraint. Conveniently, Democrats understand that if they subsidize poverty, they will create more of it – and most importantly, more government-dependent Democrats.
Ultimately, it becomes difficult to get ahead and build a better future for American families. And as long as the government cares more about your Venmo transactions than it does about how welfare dollars are spent – that better future will be more challenging to achieve.
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