Is Uncle Sam checking every dollar you make? Every dollar you spend? If the IRS isn't all up in your junk, I can only assume it's because you have no junk.
FWIW.. I just signed the check for my 4th quarter personal estimate.. it was only $500,000.
Uh-huh. I assume it was counter-signed by your wife ... Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that's the ticket!
If you’re that worried about your freedom... start fighting for term limits, spending control, and line item vetos.
As the man sang, two out of three ain't bad. Term limits are counterproductive. Term limits give us rookie congressmen -- they take power out of the hands of representatives and place it in the hands of staffers and lobbyists who are unelected and unaccountable.
I'm for the line-item veto, but that will take a constitutional amendment. The SCOTUS precedent is clear -- spending is Congress' responsibility, one they cannot hand off to the president, even if they want to.
Spending control? I'm for it. Show me a candidate who does more than talk the talk. I've had it up to [gesture just below the nose] here with candidates who talk out of one side of their mouths about ending pork barrel spending, while bragging out the other side about how well they "bring home the bacon."
Nearly every candidate. Both parties. Year after year. They al want to win votes by taking money from folks who aren't their constituents and handing it to folks who are. Boxer and Feinstein don't give a good damn about the burden on NY taxpayers; Schumer and Clinton don't give a good damn about the burden on CA taxpayers. Why should they care? Across the state line, the votes aren't theirs to win or lose.
I've lived 37 years, and what I've learned is that pork barrel spending is like the weather. In the words of Mark Twain, "everybody talks about it, but no one ever does anything." Everyone does it while condemning it. And changing the name from "pork" to "earmarks" does not change the equation.
Frankly, most see the FT as not being anything more than the deckchairs on the titanic, I see it as the iceberg, and what you see of the bill, and the 'ad nausem' spin, is not one iota more than what they want you to see.