Americans Shouldn’t Have to Subsidize Their Own Mistreatment, by J.B. Shurk

Americans shouldn’t have to bear mistreatment that’s not subsidized, either. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:

There is plenty of evidence that taxpayer dollars are funding the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere.  Here’s how that happens: domestic agitators set up “non-profits” and other kinds of “non-governmental organizations” with deceptively innocuous names.  They apply for monetary grants from state and federal agencies.  Government agencies use their discretion to award outside groups.  These groups then pay rioters to cause mayhem on the streets.  Voila!  Government-funded pop-up revolutions are ready to go!

This isn’t anything new.  Politicians have been diverting taxpayer funds to their favorite “public policy” groups for so long that a large professional class now exists whose entire business model consists of establishing new “foundations,” bilking government agencies of fresh taxpayer dollars, filling their own bank accounts, and occasionally doing the bidding of the government bureaucrats responsible for doling out the “free” money.  

Have you ever wondered why so many government-adjacent “influencers” who show up on cable news are the “president,” “founder,” or “CEO” of organizations with serious-sounding names whose activities sound peculiarly vague?  Most of those empty suits with fancy titles are the heads of recently made-up entities that specialize in leeching off the taxpayer.  Whenever their prefabricated organizations miss out on easy government money, they simply create new ones and play the game again.  

These government-funded third parties produce nothing of value.  Their names suggest that they pursue charitable missions, but they help only themselves.  They are parasites that suck taxpayer wealth from working families, and if their own “work” impacts a local community at all, it is usually in the form of organized “protests” that block traffic, shut down businesses, and prevent Americans from getting to actual jobs.  They are government-subsidized agents of chaos.

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