[Chad C. Mulligan]

Stick a fork in him.

Hate to say it but: I Told You So.

[stevem]

What a magnificent campaign strategy!!!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Illegals and the poor don’t pay their fair share Mike.

You can kiss any future office you dream of good-bye.

[Amendment10]

A post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Senate candidate!

How could the country possibly have survived without 17A? /super-sarc

Patriots are reminded that the Supreme Court had clarified that the federal government cannot appropriate taxes for anything that it cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-powers.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Given the federal government's biggest, constitutionally authorized expense is defense, the annual wartime federal budget arguably shouldn't be more than $1 trillion imo, and I'm being generous.

In other words, thanks to misguided, 17A ordinary voters, that's people like you and me, most so-called “federal” domestic spending is actually based on state powers and state revenues imo. The feds steal state powers and revenues by means of unconstitutional appropriations bills that the very corrupt, now popularly elected Senate fails to kill.

The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government oppressing everybody under its boots...

Patriots need to work with their state lawmakers to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their money.

Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spending is stopped, made permanent by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments, the states will ultimately (imo) find a tsunami of new revenues to do the things that their respective citizens want.

In fact, Justice Louis Brandeis had introduced his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to describe the vast, 10th Amendment-protected powers of the states to serve the people, each state ultimately establishing the kind of state social spending programs that the qualified citizen voters of a given state want.

• ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• "[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.

Again, the states are going to need to peacefully put Congress back in its Section 8-limited power cage before the states can become “laboratories of democracy” as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had intended.

Insights welcome.

Also, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.

Again, insights welcome.

[markoman]

Depends on how you define middle class.

Marko

[Gaffer]

He needs to go.....

[aquila48]

Another member of the stupid party shoots himself in both feet and his privates.

[Irenic]

He’s a jackwad. Flat tax then, everyone making a dollar or a billion pay the same percentage, done.

[zeugma]

Here are the original 1913 tax rates from the original 1040 form. Note, that you paid nothing if you made less than $20,000.
(How many people made $20k+ per year in 1913?)

Here's a link to a page that has the entire 1040 form as a PDF. It is only 4 pages, with instructions!https://www.zeugmaweb.net/histdocs/income_tax.html

[BlackbirdSST]

“not really paying any kind of a fair share”

...and Atlas Shrugs.

[The Pack Knight]

From Article: For the first time on record, the wealthiest 400 Americans in 2018 paid a lower tax rate than all of the income groups in the United States, research highlighted by the New York Times from University of California, Berkeley, economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman finds.

Wait a minute: Breitbart is seriously relying on the Saez-Zucman book? A left-wing attempt to smear the Trump tax reform that, by the way, happens to be wrong? https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-irs-proves-the-lefts-economists-wrong-11584047554

[growingpains]

READ THE WHOLE QUOTE AND ARTICLE. FAKE NEWS!It was taken out context in relation to the whole quote. JD Vance behind this.