And in retrospect, the Founders appear to have been almost clairvoyant; certainly prescient:
From
Federalist No. 62:
"...It may be affirmed, on the best grounds, that no small share of the present embarrassments of America is to be charged on the blunders of our governments; and that these have proceeded from the heads rather than the hearts of most of the authors of them. What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom; so many impeachments exhibited by each succeeding against each preceding session; so many admonitions to the people, ...?
....
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous.
It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people.
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.
In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government. The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements.
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices of a steady system of national policy.
But the most deplorable effect of all is that diminution of attachment and reverence which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability."
Let's end this little dalliance with Socialism and return to the vision of the Founders. Let's enact the FairTax!
so many monuments of deficient wisdom and they are called Congressmen and Senators
This bill is now set to be enacted by NEXT JAN if passed!
it it NOW that we must bombard the media, Washington, letters to the editors to educate people and GET this PASSED.
Settle for nothing else.
Socialism will be stopped dead in it's tracks.
We will experience real freedom - and our GROSS paychecks = for the first time in our lives.
No more "April 15th", no more watchdogs hovering over us, no reporting to anyone about where we work, how much we make, where we spend it -
Businesses, especially small Business, will be free from matching payrolls taxes and the bookkeeping - they will be able to hire more people, more will be able to offer health insurance - it goes on and on. TRUE FREEDOM...
Print this link out
http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/ftax.html
- email the link to everyone on your list - let WAshington know we demand this - it's in the pipeline - if we make them pass it , it will take effect next JANUARY. YOu will never have to think about income tax returns again.
Admit it, the very thought is liberating.