The specified purpose of American government was not to tax but rather...
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men"
ALL givernment is Mob Rule by mobsters.. all of them..
The matter is limiting the damage a givernment can do...
Thats WHY we have a Constitution(written down) the ONLY reason..
This is complicated by the fact in America we have three giverments.. federal, state and local givernment..
Each of them have different problems and need to be limited in different ways..
The next person you hear use the word givernment and does not specify or imply which givernment is blowing smoke up your ass.. or is a moron..
And since most americans are civic morons whom do not care about solving real problems anyway.. If YOU DO NOT educate them they will remain morons..
I do what I can...
Who, in their right minds, wants an effective legislature?
Life is much safer when the bastards are tied up in knots and spinning their wheels.
/johnny
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
It is clear that having the means of financing government is critical and that was why the Constitution was written in the first place.
Liiberals never beleive in a limited government unless it is a conservative government. Let the gov tax abortions and watch them go nuts.
Our fore fathers went to war over taxation on stamps, documents, tea - imagine what they would think about the government taking up to 39% of ones income?
Very superficial argument. Only an Obama judge would allow it to go forwrd.
Colorado’s legislature can tax and appropriate per it’s constitution.
Limits on the rulers are as republican as are those on the mob.
God help us if this case gets to the Supreme Court, which we now know has three distinct factions: 4 liberals, 4 conservatives, and 1 moron.
I am no civics expert but when it comes to taxes it appears that
Colorado is more of a democracy than a republic. I was taught
that the government IS the people in these here United States.
That today both folks on the left and the right see government as
something totally apart from the people is a sure sign of devo-
lution in my opinion. But I surely believe that whether or not
those running the government can impose taxes without the
direct consent of the people there is still governing going on. It
is just that the liberal writers of the Atlantic are not accustomed
to this type of governing. It doesn’t fit their paradigm.