he's also a racist and voted against the amber alert! Who in their right mind would support that??? He also wants to get rid of all taxes but how is our country supposed to run without taxes?
Thank you for hitting on the real root of Ron Paul's election problems.
Far too many idiots vote. It doesn't get any more simple.
No taxes? Why wouldn't we have any taxes?
You need some serious lessons in history son. Our country operated just fine without a direct tax on labor for a long, long time. Then a group of jealous minded people looked around one day and thought "life isn't fair". They devised a campaign to "soak the rich", but the problem is the constitution didn't allow a non-proportional tax on yearly earnings. They didn't care - they penned the legislation anyway - and the courts promtly struck it down.
So a movement to change the law of the land was formed. They thought it to be a noble cause - those filthy rich bastards were laughing at them you know.
And they did it - in move that remains controversial to this day - an amendment was ratified. They could soak the rich!
Well, up to that point government was pretty much exclusively funded by the rich through various excise taxes but now a whole new tax was created and all they needed to do was take the blindfold off off lady liberty and ask a few simple questions to get there. Who are you? How much did you make? No big deal.
A funy thing happened though. The government was given new power to tax the rich in new and exciting ways and they used it in all kinds of unexpected manners. For instance, a tax designed to soak the rich is now levied on every American before they even see their labor earnings. A whole new set of questions are asked - Where do you live? How many kids do you have? How much medical expenses do you have? How far do you drive? How much interest do you pay? Any gambling earnings? School costs? And on and on.
And you know what? The rich are still laughing. Because not only did they game the tax system, but your money is being gamed too. They like to print lots and lots of new money backed by nothing but their ability to tax your labor and place a lean on your property. And guess who sees that new money first? Yep - the rich. Oh - the new money effects the entire globe - but not the same.
Here's a little more history for you. Economist J.R. McCulloch, stated over 150 years ago, "The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of extracting from all individuals the same proportion of their income or of their property, you are at sea without a rudder or compass, and there is no amount of injustice or folly you may not commit."
Currently, 50% of us pay about 96% of all income taxes. You wonder why spending can't be controlled - simple. We are rudderless. Learn your history troll boy.
