On 9/22/2012 6:13 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
If the purpose of the tax system is to fund the government, then a low flat
tax will promote economic growth, and bring in more total revenue.

Careful...fund the government doing what? The correct and proper
function of government *excludes* providing the basic goods and services
of life to deadbeat vermin who are too ****ing lazy to do it for
themselves: housing, food, clothing, transportation. Read our
Constitution. There is no mention of school lunches, food stamps,
Section 8 housing payments, farm subsidies, medical care provision, or
any of that massive redistribution schemes in which government at all
levels engages. The *intent* of the founders was to create an extremely
limited government - basically, one that provided national defense, a
little bit of essential infrastructure, a court system, and basic
protection of social order - and the Constitution they wrote reflects
that. By *NO* means did the founders intend government to be a vehicle
to level life's outcomes for citizens. The founders saw *NO* role for
government to redistribute wealth or income. You no they didn't because
there's nothing in the Constitution about it - the Constitution is *THE*
defining document of both the structure and the intent of government.
There is a vague statement about "general welfare", but no
interpretation of the Constitution has ever held that that meant a power
to redistribute wealth and income, or to promote the *specific* welfare
of politically favored classes like farmers or deadbeat vermin who will
vote universally for the party that promises them the softest life.

Define the duties of government in the most severely restricted role
imaginable, then impose a low flat tax just sufficient to fund those
legitimate activities. That is good and just.


I agree, no moral justification....

Christopher A. Young
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