I don't suppose that anyone will ever suggest that the government should be limited to those functions actually allotted it by the constitution, with a budget limited to just those funds essential to perform those allotted functions.
Nah - too radical.
I'm sure the gang will be here shortly with the obligatory cut-and-paste FairTax BS.
Don't be silly. It would be progress if we could just get the government to freeze government spending. Even that suggestion would get a lot of government panties in a bind.
Nah - too radical."
I can think of one function: to coin money and make nothing but gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debt. But that is too radical as well.
"The Fraudulent Tax Currency, there fixed it.
The twin truths that taxation is theft (no matter how the (1)money is collected) and that the US government should never be given a budget that is in the (2)trillions (no matter how the (1)money is collected) are concepts that FairTax proponents have never grasped."
(1.) Money? What kind of money, please? We use a money substitute as money, not 'primary money.' Not even a money substitute as in a silver or gold certificate redeemable in coin. No, it is more pathetic than that. Our money substitute is a substitute for legitimate money substitutes. It is a second-degree money substitute. The money substitute that we pass as money is all debt, comprised slightly as base metal tokens and paper slips, but mostly of deposits and "securities." The money is nowhere and everywhere. It is everwhere someone's bank balance is positive. But if everyone were to try and withdraw his and her deposits all at the same time, we would find out that our money is nowhere. My wife has an account at the credit union, and the teller fussed because she wanted to withdraw $1,000.00 FRN. Need to phone in first so they can order it. Thanks! That'll be a lot of help in a panic.
(2.)Trillions...of what, please? What were you going to say? Dollars? The United States has been fooled into regarding paper coupons which redeem nothing and which represent someone else's debt, as dollars. Real dollars contain about an ounce of silver, and have "heft." Or a real dollar can contain gold that is of the value of the silver dollar, and also has "heft." Papers that sport the word dollar, no matter where they come from, no matter how official they look, are no more dollars than a piece of paper that reads "Cow," is a cow. But if you can be made to believe anything it is amazing what people can get away with!
The fair tax is a laudable mission. But until control of credit is wrenched from the state where it is centralized, and returned back to the private sector where it belongs, there is not much hope of restoring economic liberty to this land, fair tax or not.
Since there are only 18 clauses under Section 8 of Article 1 of the US Constitution, I submit that the federal budget should be divided into 18 parts, with 1/18th of each funding each of the 18 clauses.