By J.B. Shurk

Why should taxpayers have to fund a government that hates them?

There is plenty of evidence that taxpayer dollars are funding the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Here’s how that happens: domestic agitators set up “non-profits” and other kinds of “non-governmental organizations” with deceptively innocuous names. They apply for monetary grants from state and federal agencies. Government agencies use their discretion to award outside groups. These groups then pay rioters to cause mayhem on the streets. Voila! Government-funded pop-up revolutions are ready to go!

This isn’t anything new. Politicians have been diverting taxpayer funds to their favorite “public policy” groups for so long that a large professional class now exists whose entire business model consists of establishing new “foundations,” bilking government agencies of fresh taxpayer dollars, filling their own bank accounts, and occasionally doing the bidding of the government bureaucrats responsible for doling out the “free” money.

Have you ever wondered why so many government-adjacent “influencers” who show up on cable news are the “president,” “founder,” or “CEO” of organizations with serious-sounding names whose activities sound peculiarly vague? Most of those empty suits with fancy titles are the heads of recently made-up entities that specialize in leeching off the taxpayer. Whenever their prefabricated organizations miss out on easy government money, they simply create new ones and play the game again.

These government-funded third parties produce nothing of value. Their names suggest that they pursue charitable missions, but they help only themselves. They are parasites that suck taxpayer wealth from working families, and if their own “work” impacts a local community at all, it is usually in the form of organized “protests” that block traffic, shut down businesses, and prevent Americans from getting to actual jobs. They are government-subsidized agents of chaos.

Consider how insane this arrangement is.  In Los Angeles alone, dozens of law enforcement officers have been injured during the last two weeks of riots.  Shops have been vandalized and looted.  Citizens are effectively blackmailed to support anti-ICE terrorists or suffer serious consequences.  As the famous “Libs of TikTok” social media account has repeatedly pointed out, “Democrats are funding the riots and destruction of our cities.”  While speaking in Los Angeles, VP Vance noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass “actively encouraged illegal migration” and then put American citizens in harm’s way by fanning the flames of the anti-ICE riots.

Let’s break this down.  Taxpayers fork over money to pay the government salaries of Newsom and Bass.  They pay for a police force and provide that force with the vehicles and equipment necessary to defend the civilian population.  They pay for public infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, and pay for trash removal and sanitation crews to keep their cities clean.  

However, they also pay the agitators — who receive taxpayer grants — to destroy city parks, vandalize businesses, graffiti streets, and attack residents.  They pay for Newsom, Bass, and other Democrat blowhards to make speeches that defend the actions of rioters and condemn the actions of law enforcement officers.  They pay for damaged police vehicles and equipment and cover overtime expenses.  They pay for the hospital bills of injured officers.  They pay to repair broken windows, busted concrete, and burnt-out buildings.  They pay in the form of higher insurance premiums.  They pay in lost time and money while government-subsidized domestic terrorists block traffic and threaten drivers.  They pay by diverting police resources away from other assignments that might prevent or solve crimes.  Most seriously of all, taxpayers pay big time if they or their loved ones are hurt or killed during these government-financed, Democrat-sponsored riots.