Still holding out hope that the evil can be blocked at the ballot box? If enough citizens agree with you, vote accordingly, it might overwhelm their ability to steal. Right now the B Admin is killing the country with a thousand paper cuts as his predecessors did. His henchmen need to be removed now. The un-elected run the country and the rest uphold their ability to do so.
Still holding out hope that the evil can be blocked at the ballot box? If enough citizens agree with you, vote accordingly, it might overwhelm their ability to steal. Right now the B Admin is killing the country with a thousand paper cuts as his predecessors did. His henchmen need to be removed now. The un-elected run the country and the rest uphold their ability to do so.
Ben Franklin intuited the problem with having a republic when he said we had one if we could keep it. It takes some degree of effort for citizens to keep informed and that is more than most are willing to make. And the more complex it becomes, the more effort is required hence fewer are really paying attention and even resent being told they should
Both of my sons clear message since the early 1990s: if the system works for you, what's not to like. Last month my youngest came by on a dirt bike with several of his old buddies (I've known since 1982) and a son of another friend. We got to talking about the state of affairs and the son who has a three year old just listened. My son finally said, hey pay no heed - there is nothing you can do about any of it. Just raise your kid the best you and your wife can.
You are spot on. I was having that thought this morning - thinking of my many oldest friends. Mindset is alphabet news keeps them in the know where any wrongdoing is from the тАШotherтАЩ side and will be corrected. A hundred years of the self-indulgent mated with propaganda takes a toll. It was especially evident when I moved back to the Midwest March 2017. My best friend came by and mentioned General Flynn and how he better watch himself. How's that I asked. She heard Obama has a big problem with him. This is how 'paying attention' pays off. Two months after Covid arrived she put a sign at the entrance to her farm that said We Shall Overcome. I had just moved my colt to her place to be weaned. Less than a year later she rushed out to get her jab and then another one. I kept him there until he was two. She still let me on her property knowing I was not jabbed and she never enforce the mask mandate, probably thinking she was protected.
Dr Nash, I respect your opinion. Let me ask you a question: donтАЩt you think that if taxpayers were allowed (required) to assign their tax dollars that THAT would highly motivate everyone to DO something about our governmentтАЩs tyranny? I think that when tax money is out of our individual control and we see corruption and uses that we strongly object to, we give up. But nothing focuses the will more than money. It IS our money the government is using and if we object or want to hold accountable, what better way than to put our money where we think it will serve our collective purposes. If a department like the NIAID suddenly saw its budget shrink to nearly nothing, donтАЩt you think they would 1. Clean up their act and 2. Try to convince the general public that what they want to do with our money is in our best interest. This business of generating a 4,000 page budget proposal and delivering it the morning of the vote would stop immediately if citizen taxpayers simply checked the NO box on their list of funding proposals on their tax returns. I genuinely believe that the electorate would almost immediately come up to speed on government issues.
Agree but what would be better is to abolish the income tax. Our founders wisely forbade direct taxes in their fear of a too powerful central gov. It figures a progressive would do an end around and push this travesty on a nation on a war footing. Way too much money collected to support way too much redundant and inefficient bureaucracy.
Economics not my forte. Suggest reading the Federalist Papers. My take from my read was the founders had pretty well restricted income to this newly formed fed mainly restricting it to collecting tariffs. So in keeping with this obvious intent of the Founders, income to the fed should be limited as much as possible with the states taking on more of the task of governance that the fed has improperly acquired.
Still holding out hope that the evil can be blocked at the ballot box? If enough citizens agree with you, vote accordingly, it might overwhelm their ability to steal. Right now the B Admin is killing the country with a thousand paper cuts as his predecessors did. His henchmen need to be removed now. The un-elected run the country and the rest uphold their ability to do so.
Ben Franklin intuited the problem with having a republic when he said we had one if we could keep it. It takes some degree of effort for citizens to keep informed and that is more than most are willing to make. And the more complex it becomes, the more effort is required hence fewer are really paying attention and even resent being told they should
Both of my sons clear message since the early 1990s: if the system works for you, what's not to like. Last month my youngest came by on a dirt bike with several of his old buddies (I've known since 1982) and a son of another friend. We got to talking about the state of affairs and the son who has a three year old just listened. My son finally said, hey pay no heed - there is nothing you can do about any of it. Just raise your kid the best you and your wife can.
You are spot on. I was having that thought this morning - thinking of my many oldest friends. Mindset is alphabet news keeps them in the know where any wrongdoing is from the тАШotherтАЩ side and will be corrected. A hundred years of the self-indulgent mated with propaganda takes a toll. It was especially evident when I moved back to the Midwest March 2017. My best friend came by and mentioned General Flynn and how he better watch himself. How's that I asked. She heard Obama has a big problem with him. This is how 'paying attention' pays off. Two months after Covid arrived she put a sign at the entrance to her farm that said We Shall Overcome. I had just moved my colt to her place to be weaned. Less than a year later she rushed out to get her jab and then another one. I kept him there until he was two. She still let me on her property knowing I was not jabbed and she never enforce the mask mandate, probably thinking she was protected.
Dr Nash, I respect your opinion. Let me ask you a question: donтАЩt you think that if taxpayers were allowed (required) to assign their tax dollars that THAT would highly motivate everyone to DO something about our governmentтАЩs tyranny? I think that when tax money is out of our individual control and we see corruption and uses that we strongly object to, we give up. But nothing focuses the will more than money. It IS our money the government is using and if we object or want to hold accountable, what better way than to put our money where we think it will serve our collective purposes. If a department like the NIAID suddenly saw its budget shrink to nearly nothing, donтАЩt you think they would 1. Clean up their act and 2. Try to convince the general public that what they want to do with our money is in our best interest. This business of generating a 4,000 page budget proposal and delivering it the morning of the vote would stop immediately if citizen taxpayers simply checked the NO box on their list of funding proposals on their tax returns. I genuinely believe that the electorate would almost immediately come up to speed on government issues.
Agree but what would be better is to abolish the income tax. Our founders wisely forbade direct taxes in their fear of a too powerful central gov. It figures a progressive would do an end around and push this travesty on a nation on a war footing. Way too much money collected to support way too much redundant and inefficient bureaucracy.
How would an alternative tax work and wouldnтАЩt it be then easier for government to spend as it wants?
Economics not my forte. Suggest reading the Federalist Papers. My take from my read was the founders had pretty well restricted income to this newly formed fed mainly restricting it to collecting tariffs. So in keeping with this obvious intent of the Founders, income to the fed should be limited as much as possible with the states taking on more of the task of governance that the fed has improperly acquired.
Answered on your other comment.