On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:54:30 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
On 7 Mar 2006 21:50:28 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:47:06 GMT, Nick Hull
wrote:
"Rich Grise, PLainclothes Hippie"
wrote:

Elect Me President in 2008! I will:
A. Fire the IRS, and abolish the income tax B. Legalize drugs
C. Stand down all military actions by the US that don't involve
actual
military aggression against US territory
D. Declare World Peace I.

You got my vote.

Great. Who pays for the roads, police & fire & EMS protection, and all
those things then?

It's Rich's treat ;-)

Let's hear it for a regressive income tax ;-)

...Jim Thompson

How about just going back to the way it once was, where a person took care
of his/her own needs, then the family, and if there were issues that
couldn't be dealt with at a family level, then there are communities, and
so on -

BUT!!!!

Just because there are big issues that need more than a local scope,
doesn't mean that the big guys should take over the local issues as well.

And there should never have been any sort of income tax -
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Article XVI.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from
whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States,
and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Proposal and Ratification
The sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-first
Congress on the 12th of July, 1909, and was declared, in a proclamation of
the Secretary of State, dated the 25th of February, 1913, to have been
ratified by 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification we Alabama,
August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8, 1910; South Carolina, February 19,
1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910; Mississippi, March 7, 1910; Oklahoma, March
10, 1910; Maryland, April 8, 1910; Georgia, August 3, 1910; Texas, August
16, 1910; Ohio, January 19, 1911; Idaho, January 20, 1911; Oregon, January
23, 1911; Washington, January 26, 1911; Montana, January 30, 1911;
Indiana, January 30, 1911; California, January 31, 1911; Nevada, January
31, 1911; South Dakota, February 3, 1911; Nebraska, February 9, 1911;
North Carolina, February 11, 1911; Colorado, February 15, 1911; North
Dakota, February 17, 1911; Kansas, February 18, 1911; Michigan, February
23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Missouri, March 16, 1911; Maine, March
31, 1911; Tennessee, April 7, 1911; Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having
rejected it earlier); Wisconsin, May 26, 1911; New York, July 12, 1911;
Arizona, April 6, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912; Louisiana, June 28,
1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; New Mexico, February 3, 1913.
Ratification was completed on February 3, 1913. The amendment was
subsequently ratified by Massachusetts, March 4, 1913; New Hampshire,
March 7, 1913 (after having rejected it on March 2, 1911). The amendment
was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and Utah.
--- http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Amend.html

That was the day they signed the death warrant for Liberty and Justice in
the USA, and consigned her to the same landfill as all of the other
communist and socialist regimes. It's just a matter of time.

Unless, of course, you Elect Me President in 2008! I will:
A. Fire the IRS, and abolish the income tax
B. Legalize drugs
C. Stand down all military actions by the US that don't involve actual
military aggression against US territory
D. Declare World Peace I.

Cheers!
Rich