On 08/23/2012 05:08 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
On 8/23/2012 1:29 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 08/23/2012 01:50 PM, Han wrote:
Just Wondering wrote in news:5035d28b$0$28867$882e7ee2
@usenet-news.net:

By all means, let's simplify the tax code. Don't worry about the
lawyers, they'll always find work to do.

Yes. Let us do that. Let us firstly that a letter of intent should
accompany all legislation, laying out the spirit of the proposed law. Then
somehow codify that legalistic loopholes are not valid if they violate the
spirit of the law. I thought that something like that may (have) exist
(ed).


Yes, it's called "The Constitution Of The United States Of America"
in which the Federal government is granted a very narrow, specific,
and limited set of things it is allowed to do. They are called
"Enumerated Powers" and the Doctrine Of Enumerated Powers was
repeatedly affirmed and confirmed as intention by James Madsion,
that document's author. Sadly, today's whiny and entitled
public want the Feds to be their Daddy (the Republicans) and/or
their Mommy (the Democrats) and no end of mischief has transpired thereby.


You can thank Franklin Roosevelt and his "New Deal" and then-unprecedented court-packing expansion of the Commerce Clause for that.


That's part of it, but the Right has been just as guilty of these kinds
of excesses. It has been the Right that has insisted we stick our nose
into the business of other nations even though we have no national interest
at stake. It is the Right that has decided to be everyone's Daddy and tell them
what they can drink/smoke/snort and in what manner they may have sex and whether
their romantic arrangements will be recognized by law. The fact is that neither
side wants freedom, it wants the power to push and shove and tell everyone
else what to do. Sadly, the people would rather be coddled by imaginary
government goodness than be free citizens...

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