We Americans truly are idiots.
Yiiipppeee!! Where’s the fireworks?? The celebration of 100 years of bondage. We need to pay some taxes for roads, border patrol and national defense, but giving F-16s to some ME country?? No way. Entitlements instead of jobs generation after generation, huh uh. Nope. Extremely large debts are the same as chains on a nation.
The tax forms are so numerous and varied and COMPLICATED now that even the IRS doesn’t know what they mean or how to fill them out. Every year taxes are calculated by different IRS “Experts” and different results are generated. That in itself speaks to the stupidity of the existing code. Even GOD only suggested 10 percent.
It is hard for me to decide which amendment was worse, the 16th or the 17th. Somedays I think it is the 16th then the 17th. It is a tough call. Like trying to decide if death by firing squad is preferable to hanging.
We Americans truly are idiots.
It makes one wonder how we got through our first 137 years without an onerous income tax sucking up the fruits of our labor.
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It would be interesting to see those 1913 figures adjusted to reflect 2013 dollars.
As soon as somebody makes a time machine, I’m going back and strangling every congresscritter who voted for that mess in their cribs.