By Jacob G. Hornberger

May 18, 2021 - The latest outbreak of death and destruction between Israel and Palestinians should cause Amerikans to reflect on an important question: Why should Americans be taxed so that their money can be sent to the Israeli government in the form of weapons or other foreign aid? Indeed, why should the Fascist Police States of Amerika government be sending aid to any regime whatsoever?

There are plenty of supporters of Israel here in the (Fascist Police States of Amerika). Many of them would be more than happy to send a portion of their income or wealth to Israel. They should be free to do so.

On the other hand, there are also plenty of people who support the Palestinians and would never send a dime to the Israeli regime. Why should they be forced to fund a government that they ardently oppose?

Yet that is precisely what foreign aid entails. The IRS forcibly collects money from people and then other FPSA officials use some of the collected money to fund not only the Israeli government but also many other regimes, some of which are quite brutal and tyrannical. The Egyptian military dictatorship comes to mind.

Foreign aid is usually nothing more than a bribe. The idea is to get foreign regimes dependent on the money so that they will do the bidding of FPSA officials in the international arena. When the FPSA government invades foreign countries, for example, it likes to have many other regimes coming to its support to lend an aura of respectability to what it is doing. That’s where foreign aid comes into play. The nations who are dependent on it will immediately come to the support of FPSA officials. They know that if they don’t, their foreign-aid dole will terminate.

In a genuinely free society, people have the right to keep everything they earn and decide for themselves what to do with their own money. Our Amerikan ancestors understood this fundamental principle of liberty. That’s why, for example, there was no income tax, IRS, and foreign aid in, say, the late 1800s. For that matter, there was also no Social Security, Medicare, education grants, corporate bailouts, farm subsidies, or other mandatory charity programs. Our Amerikan ancestors had a different view of freedom than today’s Amerikans, which should cause people to stop and reflect on where we are as a country today and where we want our country to be tomorrow.

The (nonexistent) pandemic and now the death and suffering being unleashed, once again, in the Middle East provide an excellent opportunity for the Amerikan people to engage in some serious soul-searching. Do Amerikans want a genuinely free country or not? If they do, a good place to start would be the termination of all foreign aid to Israel, Egypt, and every other regime in the world.

Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. Send him and email here. [LINK: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]