This one’s been talked about – mostly as an election year fantasy used strategically by the swine known as our elected officials to get re-elected. While this one might not be necessary if the income tax were reduced to 3% by an Amendment of its own, it wouldn’t hurt to have some extra insurance.ÂÂ
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In my opinion, the single biggest danger presented to this country by our government today is its increasing propensity to go broke. The bankruptcy of the United States government may take another 50 or 100 years – but probably not. Based on the drunken-sailor spending habits and the inevitable economic downturn, it may just happen within the next ten to twenty years. (In fact, the process has already started as you can see by the continued deterioration of the dollar against almost all other currencies. Remember what was once said about the decline of the Roman Empire: It was not an event, it was a process. Unfortunately, from a governmental perspective, this process is well under way in America.)  ÂÂ
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A balanced budget amendment should have an exception allowing for deficit spending only in the case of war – as constitutionally declared by a three-fifths super-majority of Congress. (With no additional ear-marks tacked on by politicans.)ÂÂ
A through understanding of USC26 reduces the income tax to 0%, since it is not required by the IRS code, nor authorized by the 16th Amendment which has been shot down multiple times by the Court.
No law can stop illegality if we the people will tolerate it’s violation or the failure of the executive branch to enforce it.
All of this has been brought on by the deliberate dumbing down of the electorate, another treasonous act we are responsible collectively and individually for tolerating.
When will we stop tolerating treason?
RESPONSE to Bill Fargo asking “When will we stop tolerating treason?â€Â
Excellent question, which, of course, brings to mind Thomas Jefferson’s comment that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrantsâ€Â.
The question of when this will happen is, I think, largely a function of mass psychology. Right now the masses are still living at the height of complacency, oblivious to the fact that the bus is about to hurtle over the cliff. That bus, of course, is being driven by the nitwits, idiots and morons in Washington who are also clearly oblivious, spending their time, instead, to see which party can buy more votes with cash confiscated from the taxpayers.
Unfortunately, history tells us that it takes cataclysmic events to move people from complacency to action. (As I like to say, revolutions are started on empty stomachs.) History also tells us that an early and necessary component of cataclysmic social change is financial calamity. Only after this country is ruined by a bankrupt federal government (and I mean a real bankruptcy, not the de facto kind we have now), will people feel compelled to water Jefferson’s tree.
So, When does it start?, you ask? How about now?
Keep in mind that the fall of the Roman Empire was not an event; it was a process. If you’ve noticed the shaky foundations in the credit markets lately (see “sub-prime mortgage fiascoâ€Â), that’s the beginning of our process. Once we’re all ruined financially and the masses realize that the Lender of Last Resort (otherwise known as Uncle Sam, if you can believe that cruel hoax of a phrase) can no longer hand out billions of dollars like Halloween suckers, then the watering will begin.
As for my part, I won’t be the first person to shoot my congressman – I don’t look good in an orange jumpsuit. But, like Samuel Adams and his associates, I won’t shed a tear for the treasonous and tyrannical when the masses awake from their collective, complacent delusion and decide the tyrants’ fates.
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