Government bailouts to rescue failing companies who made bad choices has reached record proportions. I have spoken on the constitutional issue of this—there being no constitutional grounds for such bailouts. Few people are considering the moral issue. I know many believe that keeping these companies afloat, bailing out GM, intervention in Chrysler and the money poured into the financial industry are keeping people employed and therefore moral actions. Actually they are theft.

According to the Small Business Administration small businesses (those with under 500 employees) make up 99.7% of American businesses. These people work hard, invest in their business and try to make solid business decisions. One cot that is beyond their control is taxes. When the government taxes them through corporate taxes, fees, payroll taxes, mandatory contributions or any number of other routes they must pay those increased costs somehow. These bailouts are being paid for by people who have done things right, made bad choices and sacrificed. This is theft, plain and simple.

With the taxes on competing companies and their suppliers then the immorality of these bailouts is even more obvious. Ford Motor Company, her employees and her suppliers are paying to bailout the competition. Imagine owning a company and being forced to keep your competition in business.

A free market requires competition. When the government jumps in to help one business or industry it muddies the water and our nation loses the one factor that has made it so great—freedom to compete, to seek a profit and even the freedom to fail. Subsidies for bad business choices and out of control unions will not bring prosperity.