I’ve been hearing the term “single issue voter” for numerous years and it’s always been used in a derogatory sense, almost like it is synonymous with uneducated voter. And in most cases, this might actually be the case
The term “single issue voter” refers to someone who makes their decision to vote for a candidate based on his or her predisposition to cast a ballot on a single issue, such as illegal immigration, gay rights, or affirmative action. Such a voter might not agree with the potential candidate’s other positions, but will vote for them as long as they agree on the issue that is pertinent to them.
There is, however, a critical issue that claims such a following of devoted voters, of such importance that needs people to be single-minded about. This is the issue of abortion.
There is probably no issue of such importance to the continuance of our species as this one. Some will say that this is old hat or yesterday’s news, but it is matter of life and death to the ones most dramatically affected by it: those unborn children. It has been said, “Our children are our future”. Well, if that is the case, then we are aborting our future. According to the National Right to Life website (http://www.nrlc.org), there have been 49, 551,703 abortions in the United States since Roe vs. Wade passed in 1973. In 2006/2007, there were 1,206,200 children who will never be taxpayers, who will never have a first time job at McDonalds or Wendy’s, who will never be able to contribute their specific gifts and talents to a world in desperate need of solutions that only they had. Not have, had.
Abortion as we know it, late term birth control, fails to make any rational sense on numerous levels. First of all, economically it is counterproductive. Every child born is a future consumer, drinking Pepsi or Coca Cola, eating at McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Taco Bell, buying Nikes or Converse sneakers, Levi or Wrangler jeans, shopping at Wal Mart, drinking Starbucks coffee, listening to the latest pop tunes on CD’s or their IPod, going to movies produced in Hollywood, driving Toyotas and Hondas (or Chevys and Fords if you are adverse to Asian cars), voting either Republican or Democrat, attending colleges, buying homes, and all the furniture and electronic “stuff” that goes into a brand new home, having kids of their own and repeating the cycle.
What would the effect of 49 million extra consumers do for our economy? If each and every baby aborted since Roe vs. Wade was alive today, and if they all still only made minimum wage, $7.25 per hour, that would be $15,080 per year per person, which would be $738,920,000,000 in taxable wages made last year. Do you think our economy would be helped by an influx of the taxes on 738 trillion dollars (that’s trillion with a “t”)? Consider that this is the figure if every one of those aborted children made minimum wage in the coming years. And that figure would be repeated each and every year.
Being realistic, it is understood by most people that children do not have a significant work impact on a country until they are at least 16 years old. But since 1989, there were 33,068,659 children who would be taxpayers right now who now do not have that chance. If you again look at that same scenario with only the 33 million extra workers making only minimum wage, you still come up with $498,675,377,720. You could realistically look at taxes off an additional $498 billion dollars (and if taxes were only 4.5%, that’s a whopping $22,440,391,997 ($22 billion dollars in taxes at only 4.5%) in money our government could be using right now.
Let’s look at a couple of things that will modify those figures. 1) Most people do not stay at minimum wage but remain there for just a couple of their beginning work years and move on to much more lucrative salaries. I imagine that the incomes of several of those 33 million would statistically reach 7 figures. 2) This figure of 4.5% is the Federal tax, not including Social Security and State Tax rates. For 2009, the lowest tax rate (making less than $8350 in the entire year) I found was 10%. Over that, our rate of $15,080, the next tax bracket was 15%. That’s more like 49.8 to 74 billion in revenue than the previous stated $22 billion. That would have come from US citizens who would be working NOW if they had been given the chance to live.
And that’s not counting the number of businesses that have a hard time staffing their workforce, places like McDonalds (I still don’t see many of those without a “Help Wanted” sign in the window) or Burger King. Young people entering the work force do the jobs that a lot of Americans “just don’t want to do”, jobs that have been filled by immigrant workers in recent years. I have no problem with someone from another country coming here to the United States taking anything in the way of work in order to benefit their lives. But would illegal immigration reform be such an issue if our own young people were filling these jobs? We as a country could afford to say “No” to illegal immigrants rather than state we are willing to overlook their illegal entry into our country because we need their services.
Single issue voters who choose abortion as their issue of choice are not just a simple minded throw back to days gone by. I’ve only touched on one side of a many- faceted issue: the issue of life over death for the soul of our nation. And make no mistake, it is a fight to the death.
The term “single issue voter” refers to someone who makes their decision to vote for a candidate based on his or her predisposition to cast a ballot on a single issue, such as illegal immigration, gay rights, or affirmative action. Such a voter might not agree with the potential candidate’s other positions, but will vote for them as long as they agree on the issue that is pertinent to them.
There is, however, a critical issue that claims such a following of devoted voters, of such importance that needs people to be single-minded about. This is the issue of abortion.
There is probably no issue of such importance to the continuance of our species as this one. Some will say that this is old hat or yesterday’s news, but it is matter of life and death to the ones most dramatically affected by it: those unborn children. It has been said, “Our children are our future”. Well, if that is the case, then we are aborting our future. According to the National Right to Life website (http://www.nrlc.org), there have been 49, 551,703 abortions in the United States since Roe vs. Wade passed in 1973. In 2006/2007, there were 1,206,200 children who will never be taxpayers, who will never have a first time job at McDonalds or Wendy’s, who will never be able to contribute their specific gifts and talents to a world in desperate need of solutions that only they had. Not have, had.
Abortion as we know it, late term birth control, fails to make any rational sense on numerous levels. First of all, economically it is counterproductive. Every child born is a future consumer, drinking Pepsi or Coca Cola, eating at McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Taco Bell, buying Nikes or Converse sneakers, Levi or Wrangler jeans, shopping at Wal Mart, drinking Starbucks coffee, listening to the latest pop tunes on CD’s or their IPod, going to movies produced in Hollywood, driving Toyotas and Hondas (or Chevys and Fords if you are adverse to Asian cars), voting either Republican or Democrat, attending colleges, buying homes, and all the furniture and electronic “stuff” that goes into a brand new home, having kids of their own and repeating the cycle.
What would the effect of 49 million extra consumers do for our economy? If each and every baby aborted since Roe vs. Wade was alive today, and if they all still only made minimum wage, $7.25 per hour, that would be $15,080 per year per person, which would be $738,920,000,000 in taxable wages made last year. Do you think our economy would be helped by an influx of the taxes on 738 trillion dollars (that’s trillion with a “t”)? Consider that this is the figure if every one of those aborted children made minimum wage in the coming years. And that figure would be repeated each and every year.
Being realistic, it is understood by most people that children do not have a significant work impact on a country until they are at least 16 years old. But since 1989, there were 33,068,659 children who would be taxpayers right now who now do not have that chance. If you again look at that same scenario with only the 33 million extra workers making only minimum wage, you still come up with $498,675,377,720. You could realistically look at taxes off an additional $498 billion dollars (and if taxes were only 4.5%, that’s a whopping $22,440,391,997 ($22 billion dollars in taxes at only 4.5%) in money our government could be using right now.
Let’s look at a couple of things that will modify those figures. 1) Most people do not stay at minimum wage but remain there for just a couple of their beginning work years and move on to much more lucrative salaries. I imagine that the incomes of several of those 33 million would statistically reach 7 figures. 2) This figure of 4.5% is the Federal tax, not including Social Security and State Tax rates. For 2009, the lowest tax rate (making less than $8350 in the entire year) I found was 10%. Over that, our rate of $15,080, the next tax bracket was 15%. That’s more like 49.8 to 74 billion in revenue than the previous stated $22 billion. That would have come from US citizens who would be working NOW if they had been given the chance to live.
And that’s not counting the number of businesses that have a hard time staffing their workforce, places like McDonalds (I still don’t see many of those without a “Help Wanted” sign in the window) or Burger King. Young people entering the work force do the jobs that a lot of Americans “just don’t want to do”, jobs that have been filled by immigrant workers in recent years. I have no problem with someone from another country coming here to the United States taking anything in the way of work in order to benefit their lives. But would illegal immigration reform be such an issue if our own young people were filling these jobs? We as a country could afford to say “No” to illegal immigrants rather than state we are willing to overlook their illegal entry into our country because we need their services.
Single issue voters who choose abortion as their issue of choice are not just a simple minded throw back to days gone by. I’ve only touched on one side of a many- faceted issue: the issue of life over death for the soul of our nation. And make no mistake, it is a fight to the death.
