[.cnI redruM]

Coloradoins have the right idea. Use the governmental process to strip power out of the government's hands. In the meanwhile, support anyone that Club For Growth or Mike Pence works with in Congress. The spenders can be defeated and need to be, before we get tow here we were in the late 1970's.

[Black Tooth]

The government has grown so large, they now have hundreds of thousands of people who's sole purpose is to figure out how to obtain more of our income. It's truely a monster with a growing appetite.

[Mulch]

Cut spending? But what about compassionate conservatism? We don't want people think that conservatives are mean.

[OldPossum]

The good news is that a growing number of people pay no federal taxes at all.

Au contraire, that is not good news at all. Those that don't pay any income tax therefore have no interest in legislation concerning tax cuts. We who do pay income tax need all the help we can get.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Efforts are under way across the country to adopt TABOR through referendums and initiative where they are allowed, or legislatively if not.

Unfortunately, here in Tennessee, there is no such thing as a grass roots referendum. There is practically no constitutional way to force a vote on the ballot, or remove a crooked politician, or to force a constitutional change without the approval of the General Assembly first and they are extremely unlikely to cut the pursestrings that they alone control.

[FreeAtlanta]

Tax Dollars at work;

[William Terrell]

The bad news is that people who do pay taxes much pay more to make up for those who pay nothing.

Booshod. If everyone not paying income taxes now were to pay those taxes, it would still be 40% Just more money for the gvt.

[nothingnew]

Coloradoins have the right idea.

I'm in Durango, CO.

What "right idea" do you speak of?

FMCDH(BITS)

[RetiredArmy]

Our forefathers fought a war for independence over taxes that were far lower than those we now pay without complaint.

Right. But, now 50% don't pay any or barely any at all, taxes. Thus, 50% could give a rat's hip pockets less if we have high taxes or not. They are getting their full pay checks while I mail in my 40% to the imperial federal,state, city, fire, water, police, gym teachers pension fund, schools, roads, bridges, rails, streets, stop signs, fences, cross walks in the middle of no where, politicians slush funds, politicians retirement packages, politicians vote buying activities, etc. Right, we found a war. Defeated the Brits to earn the right to self govern ourselves and TAX OURSELVES TO DEATH! Might as well have let the Brits say in charge for all the good it is doing us.

[thinking4me]

MISES: FREE E-BOOK: The Power to Destroy, The Income Tax: Root of All Evil

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1477

If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson