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For example, given the recent ACA ruling, what would stop Congress from creating the following 'tax':
"All citizens will have a 5% tax increase on their earned income. Likewise, if those citizens are not found to have spoken or written negatively about Barack Obama during the calendar year, they will receive a 5% tax credit"
They aren't FORCIBLY taking away free speech. They're just taxing us and encouraging us how to speak to help prevent those taxes. They aren't FORCING us to buy Health Care. They're just encouraging us by giving us a tax break to a tax they just created.
Could taxation kill our Bill of Rights?
Taking this SCOTUS decision to an inevitable (IMO) next step, that could come from either party: eliminating our Bill or Rights.
For example, given the recent ACA ruling, what would stop Congress from creating the following 'tax':
"All citizens will have a 5% tax increase on their earned income. Likewise, if those citizens are not found to have spoken or written negatively about Barack Obama during the calendar year, they will receive a 5% tax credit"
They aren't FORCIBLY taking away free speech. They're just taxing us and encouraging us how to speak to help prevent those taxes. They aren't FORCING us to buy Health Care. They're just encouraging us by giving us a tax break to a tax they just created.
I don't believe it will get this far today; I believe the people have the intelligence enough today to stop it. But with each generation accepting these new 'rights' of our government, such laws become more likely. Today, they wouldn't think of passing an amendment to prohibit alcohol or any other substance. Once, Congress understood that it was beyond their power to force such a thing without granting themselves such power within the constitution.
The 10th Amendment, IMO, is dead. Long live the King?
Lets put it this way...Unless we begin to have fair and equitable taxation, we will have far more serious problems than just the Bill of Rights.
And "news-flash" !
The rights are not unlimited !
Fair taxation being everyone pay the same since they each have the same citizenship rights?
or fair being each paying the same amount out of every dollar they have for the government?
The libertarian right simply cannot pass up any opportunity - even a weak one - to further the cause celebre of attacking Franklin Roosevelt.
There is no financial cost for using the Constitutional rights of citizenship. Any basic civics text will tell you that.
And your 'argument' (if that is what it is) for a flat tax has dealt with a century ago and crushed and flushed, trashed and smashed. And it was REPUBLICANS in Congress which led the effort.
Uh you are wrong. How many times have lefties posted that swill that taxes are the cost of citizenship.
nothing has been smashed--only the welfare socialists and the parasite leftwing reactionary statists have been upset over a tax that castrates their power to buy the votes of the many with the money of a few.
politicians love a tax that allows them to buy the votes of the mediocre with the money of the productive
FDR did more to crap on the bill of rights and his turds have lasted longer than any other president
I have never heard anybody here - let alone those on the progressive side - say that taxes are the cost of citizenship. Do please link to some posts which say just that?
Perhaps you have heard of something called the US Constitution?
Perhaps you are aware of an amendment in that document which forbids the connection of monetary payment to voting rights?
On second thought, it seems you have no idea about either.
Money of the productive? Or is that the lucky who are born with silver spoon in mouth courtesy of Mumsy and Daddykins and their trust funds? That hardly makes them productive.
I have great respect for the self made honest person who hits it big. But not the silk diaper crowd.
The far right gives you brownie points for furthering the libertarian war on FDR. Check that - furthering is a really bad descriptor of your efforts. Let us say CONTINUING the libertarian war on FDR. :roll:
No you dont. You have no less thirst for the wealth of the productive than you do for the wealth of their heirs. Your ideology, such as it is, is based entirely upon legalized theft. The left is nothing but a pack of moral and monetary vampires sucking the blood of their betters.I have great respect for the self made honest person who hits it big. But not the silk diaper crowd.
No you dont. You have no less thirst for the wealth of the productive than you do for the wealth of their heirs. Your ideology, such as it is, is based entirely upon legalized theft. The left is nothing but a pack of moral and monetary vampires sucking the blood of their betters.
Quoted for truth. He believes the government needs to be fed more and more and more and more
No you dont. You have no less thirst for the wealth of the productive than you do for the wealth of their heirs. Your ideology, such as it is, is based entirely upon legalized theft. The left is nothing but a pack of moral and monetary vampires sucking the blood of their betters.
You are more anti-ideology actually. That is why I qualified my statement with "such as it is." As for the psychological reasons behind the adoption and adoration of leftism, you would have to ask a professional. But I would guess that the leading causes would be envy, immaturity, and fear brought on by a lack of self esteem.What IDEOLOGY is that exactly?
Which is a huge LIE.
I have repeatedly stated my support to cut at least 300 billion dollars from the federal budget.
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