Posted on 08/12/2013 1:48:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
But too many voters don’t pay taxes.
Tax day on oct 31st. I proposed this long ago.
Wouldn’t doing this forever cement and enshrine the income tax in the Constitution?
I don’t see how, unless it makes the Sixteenth Amendment unrepealable.
You would do more by having welfare recipients go door to door for their hand outs. Start that and tax day would be no big deal.
Not a bad idea, but the impact of this would be lost on the half of citizens who don’t have to pay any federal taxes.
The income tax system has become a corrupt political morass. We need to dump it completely so it can never sprout again. The best approach proposed IMHO is the FairTax...
Also, regardless of the revenue collection system, we need to curtail spending starting with wasteful, politically inspired programs. We can begin that now.
any place that wants a Republican form of government needs to suppress or ban political parties. Of course, that is unAmerican.
If you have limited government, it creats a void. And political parties fill the void and take over the government.
Amending the Constitution isn’t the answer when every amendment in the Bill of Rights is already under assault
True, but the dates within Section 1 of the 20th Amendment shouldn't be too far from the latter.
The silliest anti-17th amendment policy rant in a book comes from Rick Perry. In his "Fed Up!" book, he claims it's terrible because it altered the method the founders established for choosing federal officials and we must NEVER EVER change what the founders put in the Constitution. Yet Perry IMMEDIATELY contradicts himself in the very NEXT chapter by arguing we SHOULD attend the constitution so voters get to elect federal judges. So basically Rick's philosophy is: Amending the constitution so federal judges are elected instead of appointed? Necessary prudent reform! Amending the constitution so U.S. Senators are elected instead of appointed? Death of our Republic!
But speaking of Levin, I can't figure out why so many conservative activists see this guy as some sort of infallible conservative spokesman. Levin has made some memorable statements, but I find Limbaugh to be more articulate and Savage to be more outspoken when it comes to presenting the conservative viewpoint.
An excellent point and most useful changes can be made without altering the constitution.
But hey Levin has a book a sell!! His chosen theme was constitutional amendments. ;p
Beats me. But once someone becomes a paragon it's damn hard to get people to take them off that pedestal.
I rarely listen to talk radio, give me music any day.
Amendments he would like to see I guess.
That’s a very interesting observation.
Of course it’s highly illegal to ban parties.
Suppress is another matter, Nebraska has a non-partisan legislature (non partisan elections and I assume the parliamentary rules forbid party organization somehow though informally it would impossible to prevent).
From what I know of it I don’t think it serves us well, it just helps liberals into positions of influence, same as all the non-partisan local governments. It allows candidates to campaign on platitudes and parochial issues while keeping their agendas hidden.
I am not in favor of banning parties. I am in favor of making parties plan, hold and fund their own primaries on the day of their own choosing though.
i would think anyone living near chi-town would realize that political parties are the death of Republican govt ... self govt or whatever you wanna call it.
AHHH...grasshopper, many years ago I first heard Levin subbing for Rush Dec 2003 and thought I had found something.
Mark Levin has a gimmick that works with many.
He creates a word picture each day of himself being a messenger sent here by God to tell us the real meaning of the US constitution, not to be confused with the real and true meaning of Christmas,
In that picture all those judges even the SCOTUS who really make those decisions are all irrelevant as if they are Roman occupiers taking up and defiling the Jewish sacraments in the Second Temple~ 50 BC and misreading Torah to support Roman law . Its great because in this 2 hour world we dont need public opinion or even an convincing argument on our side because Mark gives us the constitution instead,
Each day we can listen to him ranting at Bohner, ranting at Obama, at Roberts and McCain and imagine him lecturing them while they sit quietly listening to him on mute and just frown,’’’ Oh it is sooo satisfying,
Now he writes a book with a bunch of suggested amendments that he knows none of them will be passed that he's been claiming for years are already in the constitution.
I notice AFTER the election (just today) he says Romney lost because he was picked by the RINOs, but all last year he never made a peep about that. Romney was a fine candidate he always said,
They were rushed out and about half of them would have probably made positive changes if they were enacted, the other half ranged from "sloppily written & needs more work", "pointless since we already have this rule but don't enforce it", and "stupid idea that means well but will actually cause grave harm if enacted"
In Levin's case, he knows none of this stuff will ever actually be written up by Congress, much less passed out of committee and brought up for a vote, so it's fine and dandy for him to write it as grandiose as possible and throw red meat to the crowd. A lot of stuff sounds really interesting ("An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution", until you realize we ALREADY have such a procedure in place and its never been used -- Levin's amendment simply changes it so 2/3rds of states could amendment the Constitution without Congress vs. the current 3/4ths of states, which is on the books but has never once been attempted)
What I find interesting is you have Levin fans on FR constantly talking down to the rest of us like we're idiots and don't "understand" the Constitution and the "founders intent" if we disagree with anything he says (a milder version of the usual Paulbot kool-aid... only Paul "gets it" so you MUST agree with him), but you get plenty of self-proclaimed constitutional scholars here who are constantly proposing blatantly unconstitutional things themselves: impeaching Senators, recalling U.S. Congressmen, refusing to seat a Congressman who won't take an oath on a Christian bible, appointing a non-member to serve as Speaker of the House, etc., etc.
Do as I say, not as I do?
You got it.
Levin (or Rush or whoever) is Jesus. Tell me what to think Mark, I don’t like doing it myself. It hurts, it hurts. Leave the thinking to the talk show hosts, they know best. Ratings? Book sales? They don’t care about that stuff.
Not to say they aren’t right on a lot of the time but come on. People treat these guys like the Pope.
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