[Destro]

FITZ: Well --- at some point we're going to have to outsource taxes.

FITZ! Do you read history? Is that not what happened to the Athenian Delian league? When Athen's allies were forced to pay tribute? Or to the Roman republic where slave labor made Romans unemployable creating the imperial welfare state that needed tribute to live?

We have shown that as a people we can not spend less on ourselves nor do we have the ability to raise revenue to the level of spending our politicans insist we need (and we confirm by their election).

In our lifetime we may be seeing the world pay America a "protection tax" collected by our Marines, whether they like it or not.

[FITZ]

Well --- what's the choice? For example in this area education, health care, government, and the military are the jobs ---- just about all the factories, canning plants, and garment industry jobs are gone. Those used to provide health insurance pay large amounts of taxes, provide things for export --- but all that's gone. Now only 34% of the population here has private insurance --- the government provides the free health care to 66% of the population --- and that is the population of the high health care users.

Education, health care, government, and military jobs provide a nice wage for those employed in them --- but they are all supported by the government --- if the government cut funding, those jobs collapse.

Taxpayers here are maxed out --- not many can afford a dime more in taxes yet the health care, education, government, and military need increases --- they all need more money so where will they get it?