The underground economy

Townhall ^ | July 13, 2004 | Bruce Bartlett

[ancient_geezer]

Well, the electorate isn't with you in your efforts to put government spending on a diet.

 

It's like me in the restaurant: What do I care about extravagance if you're footing the bill?--Walter Williams

The Honorable James DeMint (R-SC)
United States House of Representatives
APRIL 5, 2001

• "There has been a shift in the relationship between individuals and government, he argues, such that fewer and fewer are paying taxes at the same time that more and more are receiving increasingly generous benefits. If it becomes the case that most voters do not bear a financial burden for this largess, then there will be little to restrain--and significant political incentives to encourage--the continued growth of government.

 

They see you as tilting at windmills.

 

"As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government."

. . .

"The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system."

"In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation."

- KEYES TRANSCRIPT (01/28/02)

 

And I don't think congress is with you either.

Hmmm, just noticed we added another Congress Critter to the co-sponsor list since the last time I looked (53 and climbing).