[Poohbah]

Just because I advocate ending the income tax, how does that collapse the government?

That isn't what you advocated. You advocated 70 million people just turn off the thing and letting the pieces fall wherever they may.

The Constitution sets out how one goes about changing how the government does business. If you follow it, you avoid those nasty second-order effects I was talking about. But you didn't advocate following the Constitution.

Isn't the Congress capable of devising a replacement plan?

In less than three months, which is the time horizon you'd try to force them to act within? No. If there was that big a majority for tax reform in Congress, it would have happened ALREADY.

You'd just wind up with Doomsday hitting while the various factions were still backstabbing each other.

[philman_36]

The Constitution sets out how one goes about changing how the government does business.
Man is that ever a canned statement! How the government does "business"...
I didn't realize government did "business". I thought it functioned.
As an "employee" of a "government contractor" I see how your gears rotate.
If you follow it, you avoid those nasty second-order effects I was talking about. But you didn't advocate following the Constitution.
That's a fine argument. The Constitution wasn't followed when the 16th was implemented!
Or do you believe the amendment was lawfully ratified?

[Badray]

"You advocated 70 million people just turn off the thing and letting the pieces fall wherever they may.

" In less than three months, which is the time horizon you'd try to force them to act within?"

You have one hell of an imagination. I didn't say either of the things that you attribute to me. You are pathetic.