{"id":117,"date":"2019-09-27T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2019-12-18T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:54:26","slug":"the-bonfire-test","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/the-bonfire-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bonfire Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Government Spending<\/strong> Hurts\nMore Than Taxes Do<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine the horror\nof watching your hard-earned money thrown into a bonfire and burned to ashes\nbefore your eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People work all their lives to save money to support their families and plan for their retirement. Deliberately destroying hard-earned cash is unthinkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s\nsomething even more painful than throwing your life savings into a roaring\nbonfire: allowing it to be used to harm you, your loved ones, and others you’ll\nnever know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a Big Government Program is so bad that we’d actually be better off burning your tax dollars than using them to fund it, then it fails<\/em> what we call the Bonfire Test<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember the Five\nIron Laws of Big Government:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Big Government\nPrograms don’t work.<\/li>
  2. Big Government\nPrograms often make things worse for the very people they’re intended to help.<\/li>
  3. Big Government\nPrograms create new problems.<\/li>
  4. Big Government\nPrograms are costly and wasteful.<\/li>
  5. Big Government\nPrograms divert money and energy from positive, productive uses.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Every Big\nGovernment Program that makes things worse fails the Bonfire Test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Every Big\nGovernment Program that hurts the very people it’s intended to help fails the\nBonfire Test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sadly, most\ngovernment spending fails the Bonfire Test. It does more harm than good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rather than throw our money in a bonfire, we must cut spending of programs that fail the Bonfire Test. And return that money to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What are 10 government programs or agencies you can think of that fail the Bonfire Test? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Want to stop funding destructive Big Government Programs? Want to help make government small? Take the Small Government Pledge<\/a>\u2120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When Government Spending Hurts More Than Taxes Do Imagine the horror of watching your hard-earned money thrown into a bonfire and burned to ashes before your eyes. People work all their lives to save money to support their families and plan for their retirement. Deliberately destroying hard-earned cash is unthinkable. But there’s something even more … Continue reading The Bonfire Test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerforsmallgovernment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}