[Willie Green]

Number one, eliminate the income tax (and the SS tax) and implement an excise tax as the founders intended.

The Founders preferred tariffs, not excise taxes.

"The excise law is an infernal one. The first error was to admit it by the Constitution; the second, to act on that admission; the third and last will be, to make it the instrument of dismembering the Union, and setting us all afloat to choose what part of it we will adhere to."

 --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1794. ME 9:295

[Roscoe]

The Founders preferred tariffs, not excise taxes.

They weren't Free Traders? Gasp!

[Jim Robinson]

Well, unfortunately or fortunately (depending on your viewpoint on tariffs), Tom did not always get his way.

Article I. Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;