Posted on 08/30/2011 3:33:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Rick Perry is no George W. Bush.
This is not a compliment.
Perry's 2010 Tea Party-steeped manifesto, "Fed Up!," makes George Bush look like George McGovern.
Perry has said he wasn't planning to run for president when he wrote the book, and it shows:
• The Texas governor floats the notion of repealing the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax. Perry describes the amendment as "the great milestone on the road to serfdom" because it "was the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States."
Raise your hand if you believe, as Perry suggests, that it is wrong to ask the wealthiest to pay a greater share of their income than the poor.
• He lambastes the 17th Amendment, which instituted direct election of senators, as a misguided "blow to the ability of states to exert influence on the federal government" that "traded structural difficulties and some local corruption for a much larger and dangerous form of corruption."
Raise your hand if you'd like to give the power to elect senators back to your state legislature.
• Perry laments the New Deal as "the second big step" — the 16th and 17th amendments being the first — "in the march of socialism and ... the key to releasing the remaining constraints on the national government's power to do whatever it wishes."
• He specifically targets Social Security for "violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles of federalism and limited government," and asserts that "by any measure, Social Security is a failure." Not by the measure of the share of elderly living in poverty.
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Oh, I bet some hippies are shakin’ in their sandals.
TEXAS, hippies!
TEXAS!
Why are they so scared that he’s opposed to a few Constitutional amendments? It’s not like the Executive Branch has any power to change the Constitution.
“Perry’s 2010 Tea Party-steeped manifesto”
Where ??? When??? RINO is not TEA Party!
You make it sound like that's a bad thing.
My hand is not raised.
The 17th amendment emasculated the States authority to rule themselves.
The 16th was just criminal.
They might was well, every other person is doing the same thing.
Just an observation.
I raised MY hand.
Ruthie, Learn to fact check - everything you’ve written is false, wrong or just plain dumb. The leftoids are morons and they love to keep proving it.
Wow! Talk about having the opposite affect. I wasn’t so found of Perry, but after reading this... :-)
It's a new age, where Social Security and government entitlements may no longer be the third rail. And we all have Obama's extremism to thank.
Ain’t that the truth...
If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute. ~Thomas Paine
But since we do have this beast of an income tax, EVERYONE should pay it. The welfare recipient should pay 10% of every check as withholding tax. No one should get by with not paying. No representation without taxation.
As it stands now, the freeloaders can vote for the Democrat who promises the most goodies, knowing they won’t have a pay a nickle for their benefits.
BAchmann is the only one willing and probably able to destroy the leftist hive..
Reducing the federal government down to a manageable size..
AND moving certain fed functions to the States or eliminating them altogether..
All the men are same old same old within limits..
with the exception of Ron Paul.. Paul could serve a good position in the Bachmann administration.. as could Newt...
Perry's not perfect, but he does bring a lot of formerly taboo topics into play. It shifts the entire focus of the debate from a John McCain-and-his-friends suck up to polar opposite world view.
[ The 17th amendment emasculated the States authority to rule themselves. ]
Yeah it neutered the state legislatures ability to have federal input. Funny how Federal power increased and the people’s say in local matters diminished.
I don't think the wealthy are being asked to pay more....does the author understand what happens if you don't pay your "fair share"?
I agree. He's solid on the main conservative issues - guns, God, life and country. Many are sweating the small stuff. Unless and until the naysayers can put forth a candidate who can beat obama, I'm supporting Perry. The big picture is not Gardisil. It's the destruction of America forever.
There's plenty of ways to do this without an income tax, even if you support the concept.
So who do the libs want us to vote for?
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