The following post is a response to my friend Jeff’s post today. I recommend you read it first.
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Our ‘representatives’ have largely become unhinged from the basic principles of our founding. Washington, as well as other Founders declared that government was a necessary evil, and if they could speak today, they’d say, “We told you it would get out of hand if you let it….”
A federal taxation system is, by definition, unconstitutional – simply because it is not covered by the US Constitution!
I do recognize the need for a small central government to have revenue to fulfill its duties of protecting our unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our current tax code is tens of thousands of pages long – gasp! – and cannot be fully adhered to by anyone. It is being used as a weapon against normal citizens, while tax-evading officials get promoted. This is simply wrong.
My solution: establish a vote on a flat tax and once that is adopted by the voting public, let Congress vote to amend the Constitution, and as part of this amendment, the tax code may not exceed 20 or so pages.
I would be glad to pay 10% for national protections, such as roads and military, and another 5% to state interests. After that, leave me alone to pursue my happiness.
As for rick’s comment that “Ron Paul is our only Hope” – this is simply not true. Ron Paul is a great man, but he is no more the only answer than Timothy Geithner being the only man smart enough to fix our economy.
(Spending ones self out of debt and crises does not work. Look at our Great Depression. The rest of the world was out before we were. We spent like fools. Look at the fall of the Weimar Republic. Spending. Look at Japan’s Lost Decade. Spending, spending, spending.)
Rick, YOU are the answer. Jeff is the answer. Bags is the answer. I am the answer. WE THE PEOPLE are the answer!
I urge you to simply find true principles, and govern yourselves by those, and join with those around you who get this concept. If we do, we will have our country back.
