Ron - I couldn't help but notice that you spare liberals from your diatribes. Are liberals and their governing philosophy good for this country? What is it about liberalism that you agree with? Liberalism, as the term is used today, is the bane of freedom, and the choice of tyrants around the world to increase government power.
The Constitution should be the law of the land. It may not be perfect, but it is better than whatever is being used now.
Felons in the White House don't bother you? And I'm not referring to just the guests of the Clintons, but also to the Prez and Veep. Albert Gore admitted to having committed a felony on national TV. Bill Clinton is in it up to his eyeballs, and will probably be impeached. Do not dismiss out of hand all of the investigations into the DNC and its Supreme Leader Bill Clinton. The Democrat Party, the home of liberalism in the US, is corrupt from top to bottom, and will be rejected by the American people. It will fade away when people realize what fools they have been - it will be hard to find anyone who will even admit they ever voted for a Democrat. And no, the Republicans are not just as bad.
But don't count me among the ranks of the Republicans. I am a Libertarian. I don't agree with everything the Libertarians generally believe. Some Republicans are actually Liberarian, which is obvious from their speeches and voting record. But I can't think of a single Democrat who could be considered a Libertarian. Check out the Ron Paul homepage at house.gov Try to find something there with which you disagree.
Do you think you pay too much in taxes? How about your neighbor, do you think he pays too much, or not enough? Does the federal government spend too much money?
FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
EDITORS: NOTE "TODAY" REFERENCE IN 4TH PARAGRAPH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED APRIL 15, 1997
THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
Each April, the Republicrats' bill is tallied
Just as fans of the Cubs and Mets and Red Sox love to shake their heads and commiserate about the seasons that might have been, so do Americans perversely enjoy the shared misery of April 15 -- the date when, in theory, we pay our income taxes.
Of course, the ill-kept secret is that very little "tax-paying" really occurs on April 15. The main headache over which folks will gladly unburden themselves tonight is that of tax return (start ital)preparation(end ital) -- the annual ritual of documenting to the government the reasons why we believe our excuses and pleas for "exemptions" and "deductions" should be granted -- why we should be allowed to keep just a little more of what we earn than the guy across the street.
The small amounts of money which actually change hands on April 15 are well designed to limit tax "resistance," for most Americans, to some good-humored joking about the need for aspirin and Alka-Seltzer. If Americans actually had to come up with and (start ital)pay(end ital) the sum reflected under "tax owed" -- without the devilish courtesy of having seen it withdrawn, a little at a time, from their paychecks all year long -- the IRS and the federal income tax would be lucky to last out the month.
Before you mail in your tax return today, look at that number -- the one from which you deduct "amount withheld" to calculate your final, minuscule, "amount due."
For most taxpayers, it's at least $4,000. For most two-income households, it exceeds $7,000. These days, five-digit numbers are not uncommon. Add in sales taxes, real estate taxes, chain-letter payments into the actuarially bankrupt "Social Security" scheme, and all the hidden levies on virtually everything we buy and do, and it adds up, these days, to half our income.
Imagine how your family could have lived last year, with twice your
"take-home" pay. Forget for a moment about luxury cars and exotic
vacations. Think about buying all the dental work and medical care you and your children could want or need, without having to wait, and ration, and borrow.
Think about either mom or dad being able to afford to take a few years off to stay home with the toddlers -- and the family still eating better than it does today. A bigger house, with a garden, and a separate wing for grandma. Think about being able to invest in a friend's promising small business, or to start your own on the side, funded with ready cash -- without having to fill out any federal forms, because no "withholding tax" would be due on anyone you might hire.
Imagine being able to keep, spend, save, invest ... not just half of what you earn each year, but 90, 93, 96 percent.
Unthinkable? Effective federal tax rates were under 5 percent on most Americans, so recently that many still alive can remember the day. No one starved in the streets. In fact, our families and communities were healthier and happier.
What happened?
Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who ran the watershed
Democratic presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936, later summed up in nine immortal words the political philosophy that changed the face of America:
"Tax and tax; spend and spend; elect and elect."
The successful formula of the Democratic Party has changed not one iota in 65 years. They're still promising Peter what he wants, to be purchased with 30 percent of the money lifted from Paul ... the rest being the bureaucrat's "vigorish," of course.
What? Paul's unhappy? But wait -- we have a fine little entitlement for him, too: a deduction, an exemption, a subsidy, a benefit, whatever you wish to call it, (start ital)custom-tailored(end ital) to his desires!
And how shall we pay for it? Wait a minute, now, while we root around in the pocket of Peter ...
The Republican "opposition" largely turned tail and ran, of course, with the great "reorganization" of 1936, and staged its last, quixotic campaign against Big Government under the banner of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Since then, the so-called Republicans are the party that promises to get us to the same socialist work camp as the Democrats, only a little slower and at a discount fare.
The One Party, the Incumbent Party: Vote for them in November, tally up what you've paid them come April. It's that simple.
"Still one thing more, fellow citizens," advised Mr. Jefferson. "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and which shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at nguworld.com The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127.
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