[blackdog]

This AMT will become the biggest vote grabber in history. Once the AMT will hit more than 50% of voting taxpayers, somebody will pander to that group to "SAVE" them from the clutches of run-away taxes. It will be a temporary rescue which will need reauthorization each year(in order to maintain loyalty) and will only be signed into law on something like midnight on April 14th of each year.

I am really amazed that a nation of a few hundred million apathetic sheep is what has evolved from a few thousand founders with balls and honor in only 200 years!

[philosofy123]

a nation of a few hundred million apathetic sheep

You got this right. Unfortunately, the grass root movements are mostly about silly things. WE need a grass root movement that reintroduces democracy back to us? If only 50% vote, and block of voters vote for a guy for some stupid reasons; such as his color, his religion, his look, republican, democrat, abortion,....At the end it is a matter of math! Whoever appeases enough fractions of the population to get a majority. The reality is this majority is not a majority at all.

[henderson field]

That's just the point. A few hundred million sheep did not evolve from a few thousand founders. They came from other countries, not to build a great nation - that was already done by greater men than they. They came to get the money. Now we have a moral decay that resulted from people coming for money for 200 years, and people who owe allegiance to their homelands not to our land.