The amount of money going to governments support the socialists systems. They require more and more money for various reasons. This is why the SS is in trouble. This is why the states are cash strapped. You're evading what I said.
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Dang it, WT, someone as smart as you should easily grasp the difference between a tax bill and a spending bill...and that the kind of visibility that the retail sales tax affords will make it much, much easier to fight the battle against spending that is outside of the enumerated powers.
Oh, I didn't realize you were serious. I regard that as an unproven theory. People certainly haven't indicated they put out a whole bunch of energy on taxes. If there were a federal referendum like there are state referendums, I might say you have a point. . . nah, not even then.
This is an extraordinary claim. It's the notion that Congress will raise the tax through various methods and reasoning available to it, then outraged citizens will force them to lower it back again. Or rumor will circulate the tax will be raised and outraged citizens will keep them from doing it.
Here is the guiding principle, I think. People get used to things. They have a "normalizing" mechanism. Shortly after an event change, it becomes "normal". Politicians have been using that principle for years.
You may believe it. I don't.
