[habs4ever]

That is an interesting list that revolves around Money, isn't it? Sooo....if your top tax rates were cut to 28%, you wouldn't notice those things, now would you? If cap gains got indexed again and weere cut to 15%, even better too.So, by my deductive powers, I can infer that taxes=freedom, to you, Bill.They do to me.So, push for bigtime tax cuts :-)

[BillofRights]

Habs, I believe that all Rights derive from property. If you have no property Rights, you have no Rights. Taxes are fine as long as they are Constitutional. The Constitution only authorizes (1) indirect taxes, such as excises, duties, and imposts and (2) direct taxes that are apportioned among the states. These types of taxes are uniform and Constitutional. No problem. However, it does not authorize the federal government to directly tax private citizens living within the 50 states on their domestic income. Yet, these are the taxes being collected by the private corporation -- IRS and going to the private banking cartel -- Federal Reserve, and used to enslave the productive citizens.