`Belated Barf alert
They have a plan, we don’t.
This is why I don’t use the word anymore.
Traditionalist, yes. Reactionary, probably. I don’t want to “conserve” the Leviathan that FDR built.
Yes!
I don’t know what “conservative is but it seems to imply keeping the status quo. Well, the status quo is unconstitutional federal government which by definition is tyranny. Too many “conservatives” seem to accept this government tyranny. There is also such a thing as the “tyranny of the status quo” which in this case works in concert with federal tyranny.
Freepers and Lovers of liberty around the country need to latch on to the idea that...
THE #1 ISSUE AND GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA IS THE MOSTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL $4 TRILLION FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 80% of which MUST be dismantled to make America free, prosperous, and happy again.
The problem is because conservatives have abandoned the true moral principles.....
In the conservatives’ caving to progressive ideology .....
Step away form the bottle and keyboard. You are not in any mental condition to write!!
I used to get annoyed by this type of stuff. I have now come to accept big government progressive policies. It’s a stage all Western democracies seem to go through before running out of money. It will all sort itself out in the near future when government finances become squeezed. Until then we have to fight against it but recognize its probably a losing battle. Don’t worry though, the day of reckoning is only about one economic cycle away.
The main problem is that many who call themselves conservative are really progressives with R jerseys on.
The entire Bush family for instance.
And on many points, I think the author hits the nail on the head.
A Donald Trump hit piece... This is a rope a dope article to convince conservatives not to vote for Trump.
This is even though Trump has the most Republican Primary votes ever. This is when it was split 17 ways too.
Oh and never mind Hillary, the Supreme Court and the Globalist threat.
Where was Scott in 2012, 2008 and 2000 election.
Yeah you forgot mention BARF ALERT.
Another neverTrumper indulging in a libertarian fantasy to rationalize his own position.
He seems primarily focused on income taxes and he’s blaming ‘conservatives’ for surrendering to them. Well I don’t know about ‘conservatives’ but Republicans were certainly a driving force behind the income tax.
First with Lincoln’s income tax until it was tossed by the Supreme Court, then a second and more successful time with Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft who had the bill ready for Woodrow Wilson’s signature.
Regardless of how it came about it was seen by much of the country as being more fair than the tariffs that it began to replace- the burden was shifted off of little producers and initially only affected the wealthy.
Prior to WWII the government was taking in a dramatically smaller portion of the GDP than what we have been used to since. FDR’s programs consumed something in the neighborhood of 6% of the GDP. Postwar American gov’t has been regularly consuming 18%-22% of the GDP IIRC.
You aren’t going to be a global military power without a means of paying for it. Prior to Lyndon Johnson the major portion of federal spending was military related, domestic ‘entitlement’ spending only began outstrip military spending with the Great Society.
Just taxation is an obligation, not theft. The problem comes when the government demands taxation beyond the just obligations of the state. We have gone well past that point.
Taxation is actually meant for the financial support of the government, not individuals or households.
The Founding Fathers knew well of the troubles of Rome that came from welfare handouts.
“private producers and businesses of society” with their greed ans support for cheap labor their refusal to invest in media and their treachery in “working with the Democrats” are the reason we are in this mess. They damn well ought to pay taxes and they ought to pay everything they earned from cheap immigrant labor in taxes,All the money they needed to invest in media to combat the left that money also should go in taxes since they would not spend it. And also since they demand tax cuts for business and then turn around and put on their Chamber of Commerce hat and ask their congressmen for “their share” of the federal loot that ought also to go in taxes. You can’t win when you just let people stab you in the back.
Of course, she sees "baskets" of groups from whom she has a right to "redistribute" their earnings in order to buy votes from her "chosens."
Tired of having the fruits of their labors confiscated by an overpowering British government, America’s Founders declared themselves free and independent.
Most American schoolchildren can recite their claim that “. all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights … to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Less familiar, however, are these lines from their Declaration of Independence:
“He ( King George III ) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance …. He has combined with others to subject us, … imposing taxes on us without our consent.”
What, then, did the Founders consider to be the real cornerstone of man’s liberty and happiness? On what basic premise did they devise their Constitution? Let them speak for themselves:
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God … anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST”-John Adams
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort …. This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,… nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has … is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.”-James Madison
Their guiding principle was that people come together to form governments in order to SECURE their rights to property – not to create an entity which will, itself, “take from the mouths of labor the bread it has earned.” What was wrong for individual citizens to do to one another, they believed, was equally wrong for government to do to them.
The right to own property and to keep the rewards of individual labor opened the floodgates of progress for the benefit of the entire human race. Millions have fled other countries to participate in the Miracle of America.
FDR was in favor of self-funded schemes, unlike Hillary.
We certainly shouldn’t be adding to the number of handouts since the current ones are draining society.
A woman with a baby could put her baby in a crib at a customer’s house while cleaning the house at say $13/hour.
Two women with kids could pair up and share say a 7-day job and a place to live, three/four days one week for one and four/three days a week for the other. While one works the other could mind their kids.
It seems like the only thing conservative with a lot of conservatives is the title of “conservative”
Substitute “Republicans” for “conservatives” and the writer might have a point.
Steve Deace? Please ....
Consumption taxes and tariffs are the way to go. Kill the income tax.
Progressive s must be eradicated
They can not tolerate Aamerica and must be exiled or exterminated