If Americans are ever to be free we need to cut down the federal government the size it was before the World War I.
America got along just fine before the communist welfare state was imposed on by voluntary charity and charitable organizations. The government is stealing from us to control us.
There needs to be a constitutional amendment that abolishes the federal income tax and forbids federal welfare payments for any reason. If any State wants to step up and fill the gaps then fine because we can always vote with our feet move to another State.
I know of few other Freepers other than me to make such a declaration. I say it all the time but feel like it goes unheard, misunderstood, and/or basically ignored.
My theme for many years now has been a constitutionally-based cry for freedom against the tyranny of the federal government which I say is 80+% unconstitutional.
I love Trump but his "Keep America Great" falls way short of what needs to happen.
As my tagline reads, MAGA means restoring our Free Constitutional Republic by dismantling the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the feds which, as you say, was created since around 1900.
Pre-Civil War size would be nice.
Before WWI? Before 1914? Naw. Let’s go back to, say, 1910. The federal income tax was introduced in 1913 (same year as the creation of the NEA).