“The vigilance of the people will ensure that this won’t happen.”
These “vigilant” people haven’t been terribly effective in preventing the income tax and payroll tax from mushrooming to levels far higher than those initially promised by the politicians who championed these levies.
I like “out-of-the-box” thinking, but worry this particular idea may be too half-baked for prime-time.
RE: These “vigilant” people haven’t been terribly effective in preventing the income tax and payroll tax from mushrooming to levels far higher than those initially promised by the politicians who championed these levies.
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Well, if we can’t depend on the vigilance of American people to keep a check on their government, then EVEN WITHOUT the 9-9-9 plan, we’re doomed anyway.
ANY PLAN, be it Romney’s or Gingrich’s or anyone else’s can be defaced by any future Congress no matter how good it looks in the beginning.
‘Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty’ (Thomas Jefferson).
If we can’t depend on this, then WE’RE SCREWED BIG TIME.