Letter to the editor: Someone's always paying for that 'something for nothing'

Let’s look back to the start of the Pennsylvania Lottery … one game once a day. Today, 16 daily drawings! When it started, it was touted to be strictly as a benefit to the elderly. Just where is all this money going? I’ll bet that we the people will never see the facts on this one.

Now let’s look at the federal level: the latest giveaway programs like the student loan “forgiveness,” foreign aid packages to countries that hate us for being us and the never-ending feathering of every piece of legislation with sweetheart add-ins for special interest groups.

I don’t know what scares me the most: the fact that these politicians tell us that they will tax the big companies 15% to pay for all of this or the fact that they believe that those same companies will take that 15% tax out of their profits to pay that bill. We all know that we the people will not only pay this 15% along with the markup to boot by several companies until the product gets to us, the consumers.

One big question: When will we the people wake up and see that the old adage — there is no such thing as a free lunch — is true? If someone gets something for nothing, someone else is picking up the tab!

Kenneth R. Nath

Saltsburg