A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.