Yes, the original intent, that the Constitution applied as a limit on the Federal government, and the States had their own Constitutions...I remember it well.
Posted on 07/16/2008 10:22:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cost of Government Day By Grover Norquist
This year Americans have worked until today, July 16, to pay for the total costs of federal, state and local government. This is 197 days of the year consuming 53.9 percent of national income. Over the past
22 years, in only four years (1982, 1983, 1991 and 1992) did Cost of Government Day fall later in the year.
Federal spending will consume 83.7 days. State and local spending will consume 50.5 days effort. Federal regulations cost 4l.7 days and State regulations cost 20.9 days. The spending data is precise, the regulatory burdens are understated.
Compared to when George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 200l, federal spending now consumes an additional three days of your life in 2008. The burden of federal regulations increased by one day after having remained stable as a percentage of the economy for the previous four years.
State and local spending increases cost Americans six additional days since 2003. Since the election of more liberal governors and state legislators in 2006, state spending has increased by 13.5 percent relative to the general economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
While I agree generally with your statement, as I do love America,...I can only say that "freedom" has been the very foundational stone that has made this country as great as it is. When we are taxed by a bloated, socialist, globalist federal (and state) government to the point well beyond 50% of what we work so hard for (with the threat of prison if we do not pay),...then we are no longer a "free" people.
Something has to give.
I suppose it’s better than under sharia, which may be what Mullah Norquist really wants.
I am surprised the earth over their graves doesn't look rototilled the way they must be doing cartwheels...
In today's political climate, they would be branded "haters", "kooks", and "right winged extremists", be besieged by the BATFE/FBI/IRS, and half the rest of the alphabet, and derided, even by alleged Conservatives on internet forums.
Why?
Consider the response to anyone who would propose a return to the Gold and Silver standard, slashing the size of the federal government, a vast reduction in military posture abroad, the securing of the borders, removal of invaders--by force if necessary, the reinstatement of the death penalty including public hangings, advocate privately owned artillery and armed vessels, an end to abortion... the list goes on forever...
“the government.....consumes 59.3 percent of your national income...”
and some of those liberal democrat phalluses suggest that it’s still not enough.
(isn’t it amazing that liberals acquire amazing wealth after taxes are raised and stay raised?)
IMHO
btt
Mullah Norquist...anyone that thinks this traitor Grover Norquist gives a shitte about the US Taxpayer is living in a dreamland. Norquist is an open border pro-Islamic mole sitting at the table with the ‘Islam is Peace’admin of ‘Compassionate George’. I am so sick of these types I am getting a pitchfork!
Yet, if one holds to the original intent of the Constitution, the general government STILL has no legitimate authority to tax the People outside its areas of enumerated jurisdiction.
Yet most people rationalize it because they can't seem to see past their pet issues like 'better schools', more police', etc.
They'd never admit what a dismal failure the schools are, or that police have become defacto military units and revenue collectors instead of doing the serving and protecting of our grandfather's generation.....JMHO
They also insist on taking all the issues separately, instead of connecting the dots and see how issues interconnect.
Yes, the original intent, that the Constitution applied as a limit on the Federal government, and the States had their own Constitutions...I remember it well.
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