Is the 3rd Time the Charm — for Rolling Back Taxes?
By Michael Cloud and Carla Howell
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Our Ballot Initiative to Roll Back the Sales Tax is ahead in the polls.
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The Massachusetts revolt continues.
Hope they can pull this off.
They have more lives that a cat and better patriots than here in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704625004575089362731862750.html
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
MARCH 3, 2010
Abuse of Power
‘An undemocratic disservice to our people and to the Senate’s institutional role.’
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A16
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In other words, he’s volunteering Democrats in Congress to march into the fixed bayonets so he can claim an LBJ-level legacy like the Great Society that will be nearly impossible to repeal. This would be an unprecedented act of partisan arrogance that would further mark Democrats as the party of liberal extremism. If they think political passions are bitter now, wait until they pass ObamaCare.
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Or, in passing this, does it cement the doom of the Democrats in 2010 and 2012? Does it kick start a Tea Party revolution that drags the Political Elite from the Chambers of Congress and the Executive to “the metaphorical guillotines of a new French Revolution”. Is Sarah Palin the new Madame Defarge? Ron Paul the Robespierre?
The French Revolution which is a prime example of Gresham’s law of political morality: the bad drives out the good as everyone becomes corrupted while political life becomes not unlike the Hobbesian war of all against all in “a perpetual and restless desire for power, that ceaseth only in death.”
Do we usher in a new political reality where congress critters dare not over-spend? Is this how the USA recovers from the excess spending that rang up terrible deficits and a national debt that impoverishes us all.
One can only hope!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-senate-disfunction.html
Friday, February 26, 2010
More Senate disfunction
Hank Kalet
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Amending the U.S. Constitution to reconstitute the Senate would likely be impossible, however, because the compromise enshrined small-state power in the amendment process. But the Senate cannot continue to (mal)function the way it has.
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The Dead Old White Guys were afraid of the “mob”. They tried to throw road blocks into the “road to serfdom”, the path to perdition, or the fast lane to tyranny.
We mess with their grand design at our own peril. Their “weak president” has become a near dictator waging foreign wars of aggression at will without a declaration and expanding welfare by corruption with inter-generational theft. The direct election of senators has allowed unfunded federal mandates. The creation of the FED, a banking monopoly cartel, has allowed the budget deficit / national debt to explode. The “income tax” amendment has allowed the federal government to steal our wealth with ease. “Social security” has damaged the civil society in numerous ways — not the least of which was to create a slush fund for spending and stick the bill to future generations!
Argh, we need to go back to the ORIGINAL constitution and cut the gooferment down to a reasonable size to protect us from force or fraud and Nothing else. imho!
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