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Governor Lamm said:

Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."

The Scottish Jurist and Historian Sir Alex Fraser Tyler published a collection of lectures in 1801. He advanced a theory of democracy based on historical observation:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

So here are two noted historians saying the same thing. I concur, do you?

Our Republic is 230 years old and, IMHO, it is high time to take ourselves down a notch or two or three.

More evidence that most taxes are counterproductive at best, and destructive for the most part.
Take away as much of the ability of government to appropriate the public's money and you'll get rid of alot of problems. In fact, get rid of most of the federal government.
Education and a host of other issues should be local and preferably private enterprises.
The founding fathers were right about alot of things, and when "public servants" starting fiddling because they thought they knew best, they started mucking it up.