A.G.
We are discussing reality and you are discussing FairTax fantasy land. The land of make-believe. You need to grow up and come back to the real world. It's really not so bad here, and our economy is humming along nicely.
It's really not so bad here, and our economy is humming along nicely.
Indeed.
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."
-- Virginian House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting the consequences of an income tax.
| I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accepts it. Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power. Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them. |
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. "
--- Samuel Adams