Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) stood on the Senate floor and said, "This gives us an opportunity to reach out to these hardworking Americans and give them the same opportunity of relief from this tax bill that we're giving everybody else in this country." It was quite the compassionate thing to do. But there are some problems with Ms. Lincoln’s take on this and we can start with the fact that these "hard working Americans” don’t pay any taxes in the first place. Now, that’s a tax break!

The liberals in Washington would have us all believe that the "working poor” are being left out of the relief that is being afforded the "rich” in this country, if you can call making $50K being rich. They couldn’t be more wrong. The "working poor”, as they are defined by the compassionate, all caring liberals, don’t pay any taxes. They do not add to the coffers that create the budget from which the Congress overspends each year. This is the main reason they were not included in the original tax cut package.

Let me break it down even more and simplify it for those liberals who got lost on the Internet highway and found themselves here in horror I would imagine. If you don’t pay taxes you shouldn’t be eligible for a tax cut! Why? Because you pay no taxes! I don’t know how to put it in simpler or terms more fair. One cannot receive tax relief if one doesn’t pay taxes. This isn’t the PGA where Annika Sorenstum tried to rise to the next level and found the door resistant to open. This is about simple mathematics. What Ms. Sorenstum did was to apply her talents to a new challenge. This is about applying one’s wallet and those whom the liberals in Washington are trying to include do not apply anything. Zilch. Nada. Yet they want you and I, the people who do pay into the public trough to allow them to feed off of it as if they had.

Isn’t it enough that those who do not pay into the system benefit from everything the system has to offer? Every single thing funded by the almighty tax dollar that is offered to the public is absolutely free to those who pay no taxes. For the taxpayer it is not free, it comes at a cost, usually around thirty-plus percent of a paycheck. When the taxpayers use the roads they have paid for them, those who pay no taxes have not. When the taxpayers send their kids to school they have paid for their education, those who pay no taxes have not. When the taxpayers see their military employed in an effort to keep our country and the world safer they have paid for it, those who pay no taxes have not. Simply put, those who pay no taxes have it pretty damn good in the United States of America and they haven’t paid dime one for what they get. That is quite different from how the taxpayers have it.

Now, the liberals in Washington want to take part of the public coffer, $400 check per child by $400 check per child, and give it to people who don’t pay into it at all, all at a cost to you, the taxpayer. That’s a pretty good day at the office if you ask me. I wouldn’t mind doing nothing and receiving a paycheck for it. But then I would be enrolled in the welfare system and my pride tends to lean toward thinking that if I were to fall on hard times I would take two jobs, one at McDonald’s and one at Burger King. This way I would be making an income, getting at least two free meals a day and pulling my weight instead of weighing on the backs of others. But then, that’s just me and my silly pride. It seems that to be industrious in this day in age is to attract the contempt and scorn of the idle. Who would want to do that when one can exist at the expense of others, right?

But let’s move on from the pontificating, as I do not want to seem uncompassionate thus drawing the ire of the Hillary crowd. Let’s look at where the money is coming from for this "grand inclusion” the liberals want to establish with our tax dollars, out of the kindness of their hearts. They put forth that an increase in Customs fees will bankroll the entire package. It’s as clear cut and elementary as that (simplicity – an odd concept for a city such as Washington DC). But in the back of their mouths, as they smile and court our guilt, I can’t help but believe that something more sinister is in the offing. When one looks at the philosophy being employed it is easy to see the monster hiding in the closet just waiting for the perfect time to spring out and eat us all. That monster is called getting something for nothing. This philosophy and practice can only end in problematic financial heartache and political regret.

There is never anything free in this world. Everything comes at a price. The point is this, if we are to be an inclusive society here in the United States we need to be very careful about how it is set-up. There is no reason why we cannot have a compassionate society. As the most advanced and prosperous nation on the face of the planet, we should. People should not have to go without the basic necessities when at all possible. What we do have to establish is a fairness that can allow all to feel included. Taking from the rich, or in the case the able, and redistributing their wealth, or in this case again – their ability, is a very dangerous practice to get into. Some may call it akin to socialism. I just call it dangerous.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.