Dear Editor,
St.Maarten politics really turns me off. Instead of our leaders raising the standard and introducing new ideas on how to create wealth all they can suggest is how to tax the electorate more. That manner of thinking is what you call socialism, it is the progressive thinking of government stealing from the population so they can bad spend the population’s money much more.
Capitalism, which is a conservative doctrine, believes it is better to give people a tax break, especially in difficult times, so they can endeavor in doing a new business and making them self-reliant.
The wealth of country is not how much money the government collects, the wealth of a country is how much of the population is in less need of government. The more people become self-reliant, the less need of government, the richer the country is.
Again, that is why ideology matters, but because our politicians do not have an ideology (ideas on approaching the best manner to solutions) St. Maarten continues to the same old failed system of socialism. Socialism takes from those who have and gives it to those who have not and taxes those who work and gives their money to those who do not want to work.
If the politicians are so competent why don't they come up with ideas to minimize regulation, simplify the tax system, find ways a means to lower the cost of healthcare and make St. Maarten a very inexpensive place to do business. Finding the solutions and the right approach to these challenges is how you create wealth.
Winston Churchill, the former conservative leader of the United Kingdom, said it best, and I quote: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Imagine, St.Maarten is in a dire situation and some politicians want to tax the Internet and take you to independence at the worst stage of St. Maarten. The conclusion is: when donkey sees jackass evil becomes God.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The Patriot Miguel Arrindell
