Posted on 02/11/2006 9:03:09 AM PST by Eaglewatcher
Pork Barrel spending and political corruption are suddenly top topics of the day in Washington power circles and the national media. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert recently defended pork spending saying “Who knows best where to put a bridge or a highway or a red light in their district”. He makes a very good point. It is intuitive that people in local districts know best where to spend their tax dollars, which raises an obvious question. Why is the United States Senate and House of Representatives involved in deciding these questions at all? Our real problem is that too few people are deciding what to do with too much money.
Why and how money corrupts politics are not particularly daunting questions. George Will nailed it in a recent editorial column. He says, “People serious about reducing the role of money in politics should be serious about reducing the role of politics in distributing money.”
In the present political reality our government, regardless of which party is in power, does not focus on what is right for the people but rather on what is right for the political class and their symbiotic partners the K Street lobbyists. Our money has made them all exceedingly powerful.
Two simple steps would solve this problem. First eliminate the system of seniority in Congress and the Senate. The operating rules of both legislative bodies allow some Senators and Congressmen to have inordinate power and influence over their colleagues. The result, we are no longer governed by good ideas and convincing arguments. We no longer have equal representation in our federal government.
When did you last hear media referring to a Junior Senator or Senior Congressmen? What does it mean to be a senior member of this committee or that? Our elected representatives should be co-equals. There should be no subordinates, no juniors or seniors among them. Their power should be determined by the quality of their arguments and their influence determined by the strength of their ideas. Secondly, and more importantly throw out the current federal tax code and start over with the Fair Tax.
Our federal tax code is a monstrous abomination used by the political class to manipulate and control every facet of our lives. It is the source of the power that corrupts. Everyone, including the poor, the rich, the middle class, corporations, unions, farmers and small businesses owners say the tax code is unfair to them. Unfortunately they are all correct. It is unfair to everyone except the political class.
Neal Boortz, co-author of “The Fair Tax Book” recently said “Passage of the FairTax would constitute the greatest transfer of power from government to the people since the Revolutionary War.” Legislation is pending in both houses of congress to make the Fair Tax the law of the land. Support for this idea comes from both political parties, from the liberal left and from the conservative right. Redistributionist social engineers and laissez faire capitalists have both found comfort in it. Virtually everyone who has taken the time to truly understand The Fair Tax supports it. It is a bold proposal which could succeed in solving our most daunting social, political and economic concerns. Unquestionably the biggest winners with the Fair Tax will be individual Americans, regardless of their socio-economic station, re-empowered to control their own lives.
Perhaps we the people still wield the power. Let’s see! Vote, speak out, contact your representatives and let our elected officials know the status quo is not good enough. Tell them we are ready for revolutionary change one way or the other.
The only thing I know for sure about you Lewsilynn is that you have not read "The Fair Tax" book or other wise studied the actual proposal pending before congress. You have been told by your puppet masters to oppose it so you do.
If you took the time to find out what "progressive", "liberal", "socialist" members of congress have signed on as co-sponsors in the last congress you would be shocked.
The Socialist Democrat party is organizing their opposition so some have dropped out as co-sponsors in the current congress but those on the left who have studied it know it is a good idea and sound policy for the little guy in our society.
Please get educated before you humiliate yourself expressing another ignorant and ill informed opinion.
No, first you have term limits. Second you have the Fair Tax system. The only reason for pork spending is to get re-elected.
Don't waste your time bro. He'll just pick a sentence out of context in your post and start some time wasting peripheral argument.
The good thing is, he provides a reason to expound the details of the FairTax for lurkers.
The only thing I know for sure about you Lewsilynn is that you have not read "The Fair Tax" book or other wise studied the actual proposal pending before congress.Anyone can write a book. Other than new lies and new misconceptions there couldn't possibly be anything in the book I don't already know. Writing a book doesn't mean it's factual, in fact a fellow Freeper screen named RobfromGa has already exposed the 100% paycheck coupled with a 22% price reduction lie, by the very economist the AFFT quotes...Don't beleive me? Try looking at this and more important, JORGENSON EXPLODES FAIRTAX MYTH (FR Exclusive)
The only one new to this as far as I can see is you. I've read the proposal(s) all the way back to when it was HR2525. I know things about the proposal you'll never find in "the book" which is why I oppose it.
Did you have anything specific (other than baseless insults) you want to discuss?
WOW, Looey ... "all the way back to when it was HR2525????" Gee, that's all the way back to the starrt of the 109th session - WOW; you're memory is fantastic!!!
What's 2 plus 2, Looey???
Oh, and why do you continue to use the old vanity post links from Robbie - can't find any others that haven't been refuted? Those certainly have been thoroughly trashed as nonsense.
TERM LIMITS.
Don't waste your time bro. He'll just pick a sentence out of context in your post and start some time wasting peripheral argument.Then don't waste my time by responding...
By "out of context" do you mean when you contradict yourself or the Fairtax rhetoric by whining about how much tax you have to pay from earnings from your business when the Fairtax rhetoric is "Corporations are legal fictions that have not, do not, and never will bear the burden of taxation". Corporation = business.
A perfect illustration of what post #63 said ...
Been there. Done that. I got tired of going over the same refutations from the same idiots who appear to have a vested interest in keeping the current system in place.
I've got better things to do with my time than argue with those who have no interest in admitting when they are wrong.
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