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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (65580)	5/15/2006 1:12:30 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

The federal government should never have built the federal highways. Since they did they have consistently used it to blackmail the states and diminish state's rights. One of the few Constitutional duties the government has is to maintain the military. I support that. We can fund the constitutional duties through tariffs, excise taxes, and property taxes. America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history. Prior to 1913, the government operated with revenues raised through tariffs, excise taxes, and property taxes, without ever touching a worker's paycheck. Even today, individual income taxes account for only approximately one-third of federal revenue. Eliminating one-third of the proposed 2007 budget would still leave federal spending at roughly $1.8 trillion – a sum greater than the budget in 2000! Does anyone seriously believe we could not find ways to cut spending back to 2000 levels?