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I’m getting more than a little sick of these politicians of BOTH party’s coming up with these, self serving, radical plans of reform in government.

They proclaim their grandiose plans as if congress doesn’t even exist. They pander to the population claiming they will give all of us FREE health care, FREE health insurance, FREEDOM from taxes, building secure borders, the list goes on and on and on.

They want to treat everyone like fools and want us to believe all you have to do is ELECT US and it will be done as soon as we take office. All one has to do is look at the past and the success of any of their BIG PLANS have had.

Everyone should hear what all the candidates would LIKE to do, what their core belief’s are but DON”T MAKE PROMISES you can’t or won’t deliver.

Our own party candidates should never try to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan unless they are prepared to stand by their promises and deliver. The candidate who can show the country his CORE BELIEF’S and a HISTORY of those beliefs will, eventually, rise to the top or fall to the bottom.

"It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed - that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four." If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

Federalist #21

"A capitation is more natural to slavery; a duty on merchandise is more natural to liberty, by reason it has not so direct a relation to the person."

Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.

“It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.”

Thomas Hobbes