I think you’ve misunderstand us, both in terms of our stance vis a vis sodomy and other moral wrongs, and our position on what constitutes true federalism.
And we simply disagree with you about the income tax. It is fundamentally flawed from its inception. Read Hamilton in Federalist 21, in which he makes the case for direct taxes rather than indirect taxes. He nailed it, and almost everyone in our party agrees with him.
In my last post “misunderstand” should be “misunderstood,” of course...
“And we simply disagree with you about the income tax. It is fundamentally flawed from its inception. Read Hamilton in Federalist 21, in which he makes the case for direct taxes rather than indirect taxes. He nailed it, and almost everyone in our party agrees with him.”
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the original intent of the constitution was to avoid an income tax. So, I don’t have to read Hamilton. However, it WAS ALSO their intent that as things changed the people could ammend the constitution to change things with changing times. Thus, the constitution was ammended to allow income tax when it became necessary. This wasn’t done by a court or some other body other than the people. The constitution was properly modified by ammendment, as per original intent. Thus, what Hamilton thought is no longer relevant...the constitution was properly modified by the people, as per the proper process. I HATE sales taxes and other types of taxes. Does our income tax system need tweaking...yes..but it is preferable to taxes of goods and services. While I am not adverse to tariffs, you cannot run a country solely on that. You cannot have a strong military without the taxes to fund them. Also, for every sailor/soldier/airman/marine in the field, there must be a whole buncy of support troops and civilians employees to keep them working. A knee jerk hatred of “big government” can hurt the military structure of this country. That is one flaw of Tea Party type thinking. Now are there other areas of government that could be cut...yes of course. However, once again, I don’t like that there are such extreme differences in as I move from state to state. So, I see the place for a strong central government with the “evil” of federal employees....that is what makes us a country instead of just a union. The key is to keep them in check and limit the scope of their power. It has been my personnal experience that STATE employees can be as bad or worse in implementing odious rules and regulations. Hench, a state (even county or city) can be just a tyranical (or worse) as a central government. Often times the “county” governments are the most corrupt. Therefore, I am not an advocate of decentralized government (AKA Federalism) on the major issues. Certain things should be legal, without impediments in all 50 states...i.e. the right to keep and bear arms. Conversely, certain practices should be illegal in all 50 states...i.e. Abortion, Homosexual marriage.
You say the platform is misunderstood by me on the Sodomy question....but I have read it.....it is vague. IF the intent is to suppress sodomy, then it needs to be clear.
I will say this about your proposed party. IT IS BETTER THAN A ROMNEY REPUBLICAN ONE.