Last week, Sen. Hillary Clinton announced her plan to give every baby born in the US a $5,000 bond from the government for paying for college or purchasing a home.
My first thought when I read this - well, my first thought after, here we go again with the Democrats competing to out-buy the American voter with other people’s money - was about a conversation I had with someone the first time I ran for city council.
Someone from the GOP was giving me the run down of the rules and guidelines, and common courtesies, of running a campaign and one of the rules was that you can’t bribe people to vote for you. For example, I could not hand out $100 bills (or even donuts) in exchange for votes. (Not that I would.)
Why then can Hillary hand out $5,000 “baby bonds”?
Because it’s some one else’s money.
Personally, I would like to see a Democratic candidate promise something that does not involve taking someone else’s money to give it to me.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:37 am
You don’t Bush did that over and over again with his tax cuts…”Elect me and I’ll let you keep more of your money…as long as the state or the local governments don’t take it away from you in spades”?