Taxing Ourselves to Death[Ron Paul]

House.gov ^ | 14 Oct 2007 | Ron Paul

[Old 300]

186 Republicans and 10 Democrats voted with me last week to kill the Death Tax. It is my hope that we will get another chance in the future to end this punitive and un-American tax for good.

Restoring American liberty by abolishing one tax at a time.

[383rr]

Ping.

[goin.too.fast]

Too bad more people don’t understand that our entire system is based on REAL private property rights and that if the government can confiscate your property if you don’t cough up your property ‘taxes’, then you don’t REALLY own it after all.

[xcamel]

Old but tested and true...

"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity..."

[Old 300]

if the government can confiscate your property if you don’t cough up your property ‘taxes’, then you don’t REALLY own it after all.

bttt, FRiend.

[MNJohnnie]

When he is sane, is is very good. Too bad the few minutes of sanity come wrapped in months and months of insanity.

We elect a President to do a whole lot more then speak nice sounding rhetoric.

[businessprofessor]

The dims have started a war on private property. I am not sure that you own anything in the current climate. Private property rights are the foundation of our republic. Without private property rights, nothing else matters.

[Old 300]

We have been collectivized. The question is, are we willing to do something about it? No one else but Presidential candidate Ron Paul is talking about it at all. It must be embarrassing for conservatives to support the other candidates.

[George W. Bush]

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[billbears]

we are making strides towards destroying prosperity but expanding the welfare state. This is a dangerous and untenable trend.

Try telling 'conservatives' that.

[George W. Bush]

Thanks for those comments.

I only wish we could do much more to get all our GOP candidates to take this stance to protect private property. I don't expect everyone to support Dr. Paul but he really is 1000% right on this issue and it is a longstanding core policy of our party.

I hope he brings it up in the next debate somehow. The other candidates are being allowed to slip by answering some of these things. We should expect all of them to commit to something very similar to this position if they want our votes.

[Old 300]

I’ve heard enough from the other candidates to know that they’re really not serious about the Bill of Rights or restoring sound monetary policy. I don’t have any hopes that they’ll get on the truly conservative bandwagon. If they surprise me with what they say, none of them has a 30 year public history of sticking to these points without wavering.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

PAUL'S A KOOK! TERRORISTS WILL HAVE MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME TO STAGE ATTACKS AND USE TAX CREDITS TO BUY ARMS!

[Old 300]

we are making strides towards destroying prosperity but expanding the welfare state. This is a dangerous and untenable trend.

Try telling 'conservatives' about that? Those Rockefeller-wing candidates are clearly not as conservative as Ron Paul. Even the independent Republicans like Tancredo and Hunter aren't talking about abolishing the Federal Reserve.

Ron Paul is a superstar in conservative monetary circles, and the other candidates are either unwilling to step up and admit that fiat currency is our main problem, or they don't understand it.

I'm proud to support a candidate who can debate Federal Reserve governors on these subjects.

[billbears]

The other candidates are being allowed to slip by answering some of these things.

Some? Watching the debates I am reminded of the somewhat infamous Family Guy episode where one of the characters is running for office. She's told if she wants to win just keep saying 9/11. Now while that phrase has been copyrighted to Rudy apparently the other candidates hardly mention the economy or taxes it seems. If they do, they somehow try to tie it to our ongoing 'struggle'. They're pandering to social conservatives knowing full well half that stuff couldn't get through Congress (rightly so) and the warhawks.

Private property and excessive taxation? Dr. Paul is the only one that has hit the nail on the head and repeatedly continues to do so. To expect the other Republican candidates to do the same would require a miracle

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

We elect a President to do a whole lot more then speak nice sounding rhetoric.

Brush up on your civics Johnnie. Legislation comes from Congress, the President's job is to set the agenda by using the bully pulpit, something that your buddy Bush hasn't done.

[Old 300]

When Ron Paul points out that the second amendment would have helped us on 9/11 if we had a constitutional republic, it's thrilling to my ears. Anyone who thinks he's weak should pay more attention. He talks softly and he talks firmly. But his words are extremely powerful. Restore the constitution and many of our worst problems will vanish. The problem is in daring to do that.

The alternative to restoring the constitution is unthinkable to me.

[billbears]

who can debate Federal Reserve governors on these subjects

Heh, I used to look forward to Greenspan appearing in front of Dr. Paul. You knew in between the politicians asking Greenspan about nothing in general, Greenspan had to actually prepare for questions from Dr. Paul

[Old 300]

And now Greenspan is starting to sound like Dr. No himself!