"Reality is usually scoffed at, illusion is king." The founding fathers never wanted an income tax, a fed, an activist court nor a state-run education system. As far as I'm concerned, Optimists 0, Realists 0. Just WHO do you think is going to stop this landslide into mediocrity and declining standard of living - the optimists? Better give them all AK 47s and a hotline to the Congressional Voting Record.
Well said. They also did not want a standing army, knowing that just such a beast would prohibit citizen reforms and have the trappings of a tyranny (the same reasons Rome outlawed standing armies in Italy during the Republic until Julius Ceasar ignited civil war by taking his army across the Rubicon; thus ended the Roman Republic).
You and me and all the other non Communists. The Fair Tax will eliminate much, not all but much, of the harm they inflicted. They guide their strategy through the tax code, giving incentives to and punishing the wrong things. We can start over and be better stewards in the future.