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To: OneWingedShark

Well done !!

The beauty of what you are proposing is that none of them are programmatic like prohibition was.


20 posted on 11/01/2014 7:57:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk
Well done!!

Thank you very much.

The beauty of what you are proposing is that none of them are programmatic like prohibition was.

Some huge problems of prohibition was that the terms weren't well-defined (e.g. intoxicating liquors) and essentially left up to the bureaucracy [IIRC]; thus we had beer (with a low ABW) defined as an intoxicating liquor after the The Volstead Act whereas prior [IIUC] it would not have so been counted.

IMO, it all boils down to keeping the ability to define things out of the government's hands.
Thus, when revoking the Congress's power to regulate the Dollar's value and explicit amount must be provided, as well as safeguards against them working around the constraints.
Or nailing down what parameters are acceptable on an income tax — in fact, one item that would eliminate all this 501(c)3 crap w/ the IRS would be to define income as something that only an individual person has, thus no company or organization would be subject to an income tax. (And from there, tax exempt becomes meaningless for organizations and churches especially needn't fear the IRS stomping on their tax-exempt status.) — Such a a move would be, I think, a bit too radical a departure from what we have to be embraced by the general population.

25 posted on 11/01/2014 8:19:18 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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