"If you trust this Congress with ANYTHING you're worse off than I expected.. The ONLY way a Fed. Sales Tax COULD EVEN GET thru this Congress, IS IF, there were riders(caveats) that allowed further hanky panky with the tax code.. or do you live on a different planet.. We couldn't or wouldn't even indite Sandy Burgular for espionage or sedition even.. and thats with REPUBLICANS in the majority.."
Who said anything about trusting congress? Last time I checked, they worked for us, not the other way around.
I still recall how welfare reform got signed into law. Congress passed welfare reform 3 times; Clinton vetoed it the first two times. The third time his pollster told him that the American people were solidly behind welfare reform and if he continued to veto it, he would pay a political price for it. Lo and behold, a welfare reform champion was born! He even listed it among his administration's accomplishments during his later state of the union messages.
Your perception that elected officials simply do whatever they want and are indifferent to the wishes of the voters does not square with my observations.
“I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accept it. Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power. Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them.”
Alan Keyes “The Power of the Purse”, WorldNet Daily, August 27,1999
Hmmm.. yup you did just fall off the turnip truck..
Pity too.. you sound quite virile and exacerbated..
Bet you can handle a piece too.. d;-)~.'.'.'