"No, it belongs to us!"

Apparently, three and four year old children understand property rights better than most educated Americans.

I found a video on YouTube of a father trying to tell his kids that the government is going to be spending $800 billion for a stimulus, and they will have to pay for it.

The video has been deleted, most likely due to one of the children crying. Fortunately, I had the chance to watch it a few times first.

The conversation starts out with the father telling his daughter that she will have to pay billions of dollars for this stimulus package.

How does she react? "No, it belongs to us." She then follows with "That's not fair."

Of course it's not fair. The concept of someone else spending her own money is beyond her comprehension. If it's the kid's money, then why would someone else be spending it?

This stimulus bill that passed will have to be paid by us, these kids, and people who don't even exist right now. Whether the stimulus will work or not is irrelevant to the moral hazard this poses.

How can we possibly justify stealing the property of people who have not even been born? Did my future child consent to this burden he will have to bear?

The father of these kids went too far, which is when the boy starts to cry.
Near the end of the video, the child brilliantly says the one thing that everyone is thinking: "But we don't have any money!" He doesn't understand how his money can be spent, when he doesn't have any.

Politicians love to talk about this stimulus, but refuse to say where this money is coming from. It is not coming from a budget surplus, which is obvious because of our multi-trillion dollar deficit.

If more people had the common sense of these two kids, we would be much better off right now.

By: Matt Hickok