FEATURED JOBS
This past Passover was very special for me. I wrote a column about how this year I was able to bring my children from the hardships of Ethiopia to the land of freedom in Baltimore. We left Africa where the Nile River originates to the tony tree-lined streets of Roland Park. It was like the Exodus happened for my children.
It also taught me a little something about the budget and politics.
There are those who are calling for less government regulation and lower taxes. Well, I experienced deregulation in the back seat of a Ethiopian taxi cab holding our babies. There were no baby seats or even seat belts for our infants. Despite the heat, we smothered our children trying to protect them. We couldn’t open the windows. The cars spouted horrible pollution; it burned our eyes and lungs. We couldn’t expose our babies to this.
If you don’t want to be confined by government restriction for baby seats, seat belts, or pollution controls, move to Ethiopia.
Personally, I prefer the tree-lined medians of Roland Park. Sure, it’s expensive to maintain those median and landscaping. But who wouldn’t rather live in a society that invests in beautifying its communities?
Freedom isn’t free. It takes investment—or income from tax payers to support our parks, schools, and big hairy audacious goals like funding American companies building alternative energy products.
We certainly don’t want to be overtaxed or regulated either. With taxes are relatively low by historical standards. I believe that there are those who can afford to pay more to ensure the quality of life we enjoy in the land of freedom.
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