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To: loveliberty2
Excellent quotes.

The Republican leadership does not effectively fight the class hatred rhetoric of the Left. They had better learn to do so, or we will continue to lose our way.

A proper response would start with a reference to the tax policy set out in Article I, Section 9, of the Federal Constitution, which forbids any direct tax on the citizenry that is not per capita (i.e., does not fall equally on every citizen). While this was changed by the Sixteenth Amendment to allow tax on income, that does not make the idea of a confiscatory tax on some citizens--a penalty for daring to succeed--any less onerous.

The Founding Fathers believed in equal access to the Courts & protection of the property rights of all--including a recognition of the sanctity of contracts, the enforcement of contract rights;--but the idea of using Government to take from Peter to corrupt Paul was anathema. We need to stand firm against the Socialist Egalitarian war on human achievement. It is, indeed, the Greatest Mischief Ever Wrought.

No one should ever be made to apologize for success; no one should be demonized for not agreeing to be penalized to fund the folly of Social Engineers, trying to undo what others achieve; or to reduce the less successful in any society to dependence upon demagogues & scoundrels..

William Flax

19 posted on 07/14/2011 10:29:50 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan
Thank you for your post. The quotations cited above appeared in the "Notable Quotations" section of a Bicentennial of the Constitution Volume (1987) entitled, "Our Ageless Constitution," a 292-page illustrated book outlining the principles of the Declaration and Constitution. The volume's contributors included Dr. Russell Kirk, Dr. Charles Rice, Dr. Walter Berns, and other constitutional scholars who traced the ideas underlying the American Constitution, as well as the ways the nation's leaders had undermined that Constitution over the 200 years. It has been reprinted and is now available here.

From your "about" page, it appears that volume would interest you.

20 posted on 07/14/2011 11:40:48 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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