Especially when you consider the idea is coming from government.

And yes, to the partisan zealots in the Mesa County, Colorado and national Republican Party, even when it comes from your lord and savior, President Donald Trump. I expected the left to go nuts over the president’s idiotic idea of paying $5,000 to “humans who can get pregnant” for letting one of those little swimmers penetrate their precious eggs.

To all those worshipping at the altar of Trump can do no wrong, here’s something you thought you’d never read in my column: Whoopi Goldberg is right. Because five grand isn’t (insert your word for excrement here) when it comes to having kids. And it should always be questioned when that money comes directly from government. Because even while the government loves giving away free money, we would all do well to remember this: Nothing from the government comes with freedom as a result.

There’s a reason the left gushes over The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s mostly because they aren’t in charge of it while putting the blame on the right. Same for Whoopi’s take on knocking up now-favored eggs donors, democrats are lamenting they didn’t come up with the idea (although one could argue the Child Tax Credit was the junior version) first and so openly. But what Whoopi is really arguing about is the money isn’t enough, not on the premise of the idea.

And no one argues to spend more on a bad idea with horrible results more than democrats.

First off, the child tax credit – like the marriage credit, mortgage tax credit, standard income deduction, electric car subsidy, student loan interest deduction, loopholes for the rich and anything else you can claim to lower your “income” on the slave contract known as IRS Form 1040 (or any version) – is proof of one thing and one thing only: The American people are overtaxed, and the federal government uses the tax code to force behavior.

It’s literally as simple as that. So, for part two, when this idiocy passes into law – and believe me, democrats will vote for it knowing at some point they can control it, even if it comes from Trump – it will be codified into the tax code either by creating it as a tax credit or in taxing the money the “participants” receive. Because that’s what’s going to happen with it as the amount increases year over year. Anything the government does that comes with a budget while making whatever behavior they are forcing, mandating or telling you is “for the greater good” always becomes more expensive.

Think of student loans. Were they a good idea? It could be argued way back when, when college was a few grand a year at the most. But where are we now? The country is stuck with over $1.5 TRILLION in student loan debt while giving away degrees in studies that can only appease skulls full of mush who wonder why they can’t get a job or have any life skills upon graduation.

How did this happen? Have you ever investigated a government program and its intentions and results? My goodness, criminals who run confidence schemes wish they had come up with a scam like the Federal Student Loan Program.

Think about it. Tell the people they must be college educated to obtain the American dream. Give them money to borrow at a reasonable rate they can pay back, because they’ll be making more in salaries and wages due to their college degrees. Make sure the banks deny no one approval for the loans, because they are secured on the backs of taxpayers – so everyone gets a loan who would never normally qualify. No bank gives 50 grand to an 18-year-old with no job.

Then, basically everyone believes they have the right to go to college, driving up the cost of college. So, the loans get larger, and then college gets more expensive, and then the loans get larger, and college gets even more expensive. There’s no denying this is exactly what happened. And today, we are learning what happens when the government, as intended, forces the taxpayers to foot the bill for all the money which has been “lent.”

So yes, President Biden and the democrats were just doing the next step in the very predictable result of the student loan program: The taxpayers foot the bill. Although I don’t think anyone could have come up with the ridiculous, worthless degrees they produced.

The government has always known it was a giveaway, Ponzi scheme, destined to default. It’s the same with every government program ever thought up “for the common good.” It all ends up on your doorstep on April 15th, even though what you now pay doesn’t come close to covering the tab.

Just imagine how it’s going to turn out when the government starts subsidizing childbirth on a mass level. Heck, I didn’t even get into the reparations that will be demanded by parents of previous generations.

Call it “The handmaid and handyman’s nightmare.” Or slavery. Or indentured servitude as the more polite way to say it. The government owns your life, and with this, your offspring’s.

When it comes to the government, the citizens always pay. And the government only accepts cash or blood. The problem is: It’s always yours.

In Christ and Freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com