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To: Howard Morrison
All together now: scrap the current income tax system to get the gov off our backs and out of our pockets (will happen only if a revolution takes place), and install a flat tax or a fair sales tax so EVERYBODY pays something.
26 posted on 04/11/2012 10:20:23 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: drypowder

This needs reminding:
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinburgh) had this to day about “The Fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage.”


28 posted on 04/11/2012 10:26:05 AM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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