[Libertarian_4_eva]

I would really like to see W begin the war on Taxes as a corrollary to the war on Terrorism. It looks like a lot of people (50,000) are going to be in for the audit from hell. I like Bill O'Reilly but I hope he gets picked so I can hear his rants on the telly.

Bush is a liberal republican and is for more spending and you know that more spending means more taxes. He called for congress to restrain itself however we all know now that bush is for more spending they will go hog wild.

[doosee]

Bush is a liberal republican

I think his pro-life, pro-gun, pro-military,pro-business, pro-security actions dispute what you think. He is leaning liberal on education but I can live with his long term goals on that area. Maybe he and the advisors think the time is not right, but I still would like to see a full effort to radically change the tax mess we live with.

[jaq]

Don't hold your breath. A national sales tax will never pass; the hue and cry will be over claims that it hurts the poor, i.e. those who don't pay a dime right now but enjoy the fruits of the taxpayers' labor.

[makingsense]

"Bush is a liberal republican . . ."

I cannot go so far as to agree with you that Bush is a liberal. It seems more complicated than that.

Last Monday, Alan Keyes devoted an entire television show to the evils of the income tax. During his show, he reminded us that the income tax system itself provides politicians with a mechanism by which they can manipulate us as voters and citizens:

"As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government."

. . .

"The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system."

"In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation."

- KEYES TRANSCRIPT (01/28/02)

I believe that we are already seeing the development of a significant grass-roots movement to restore our political system to one that more faithfully complies with the intentions of our initial Founding Fathers.