America needs a “New Revolution” to minimize government intrusion
America, we need to start a “New Revolution”, a revolution to minimize the intrusion of government into our everyday lives. It is vital for the citizens of The United States of America to recognize two factors that will accomplish this:
1) We need to pass the Fair Tax Act. What is the Fair Tax? The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality, and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment.
* Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks
* Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions
* Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities
* Allows American products to compete fairly
* Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy
* Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding
* Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation
* Abolishes the IRS
Bill Archer, former head of House Ways and Means Committee did a survey on the fair tax. The survey was conducted among 500 European companies. One simple question was asked, ” What would you do if the U.S. installed the FairTax.” The responses where astounding. Four hundred said they would build their next plant here. The remaining one hundred said they would move their corporate headquarters here. My guess is that this would be just the tip of the iceberg as to what would follow. Our current tax code does the exact opposite. Product labels would contain the same foreign corporate names but the labels would also contain ” MADE IN THE U.S.A.”
For more info on the Fair Tax. Link.
2) We need to set Congressional term limits. Why term limits? This is the issue that separates American citizens, who want to recapture their government, from a careerist-dominated Congress and its illegitimate bureaucratic offspring, who want to run our lives. No more pork barreling!
For more info on term limits. Link.
To contact your congressman click here.
To enact the Fair Tax and unleash the full economic potential of the U.S., we must apply Vocal and Persistent pressure on Congress each week or every day. Email them this simple message: “Please support replacing the federal income tax code and become a co-sponsor of HR 25 or S 1025, the Fair Tax.”
To enact Congressional term limits email this simple message each week or everyday: “As an American citizen, I feel that Congress, whose arrogant spending has bankrupted our nation and destroyed our currency, who sets its own self-authored six-figure pay plus perquisites and pensions as if compensation were to be calculated based on its irresponsible spending rather than on prudent governance and has created a counter-productive envy-based tax system which penalizes extra effort and success, can no longer be tolerated. We need to pass a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits.”
I recently did a blog on a small country in Europe, Estonia, and America can certainly learn a lesson from this little, but prosperous country. Link.
I would also like to create a petition to give to Congress on the FairTax Act, Congressional term limits and voting power to vote elected officials out of office.
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June 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Great idea Kevin, however you can’t rely on Congress to enact these changes. We need a complete new start, these career politicians are not going to enact laws that hurt them and their constituents. We need a new American Revolution that fires all these corrupt lawmakers and ensures fair and trustworthy elections. Relying on corrupt politicians to prevent corruption is like asking a criminal to go to jail; ain’t gonna happen!
June 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Kevin, what you describe is not a revolution, just a sideways tweaking of the current corrupt system. Why do you want to give the Federal Govt ANY MONEY AT ALL? They just use it against you. Taxes on labor = SLAVERY. Yet your biggest hope is to be a slave with slightly less paperwork. Pathetic.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Our goal of NO TAXES will not and cannot be reached without being done in incremental stages. Passage of the FairTax could be the first step towards that goal. Kevin is absolutely right about what needs to be done. With 72 current sponsors in congress, the FairTax already has great national awareness and acceptance. Although the main thoughts of the Libertarian party are just and admirable they are, for the most part, beyond the comprehension of the average citizen.
There are many different groups trying to get congress to listen to them. None to date have been as successful as the FairTax supporters. If all these groups including the Libertarian Party would unite to get the FairTax passed, this would be the first step in returning power to the people. Once the people get the FairTax passed, that same unified front could work on other things, such as term limits. The” It will never happen” mindset must be changed to “let’s get it done”. Any viable member of the Libertarian Party should know that it was a relatively small percentage of Americans that actually wanted to revolt against England. When members of congress feel their jobs are in jeopardy, then they listen to the people. If they think their jobs are safe they could care less. The Democrats and the Republicans unite against us, We The People. We must unite against them !
Our stance, meaning the Libertarian Party, sometimes reminds me of a little child trying to hold it’s breath till it gets what it wants. Let’s not hold our breath. Let’s scream until the FairTax is law. Then we’ll scream again and again till our Founding Fathers hear us.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Ron Paul has been an advocate for no taxes. Join the Revolution. http://www.ronpaulforpresident2008.com/news/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/debt-and-taxes/
June 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Sounds good to me, the only problem is getting it implemented. Fat chance that will happen.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Your term limit question did not include the option I prefer, no artificial arbitrary term limits.
We already have term limits, we call them Elections. Any arbitrary term limits besides that would be an unnecessary limit on my ability to vote for who I want to vote for. I think this is a freedom of speech issue, term limits are an unconstitutional limit on my rights as a voter.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Amy,
Since you prefer the current system, may I ask you if you are aware of the adverse affect the 17th amendment has had on this country?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Eric,
I’m well aware of what Ron Paul supports. I’m also aware of how he was trashed by the media. Did you read my previous post? Stop holding your breath and start screaming. Let’s get the FairTax passed first. Then we can start on no taxes.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
We got to revolt. Too many restrictions on personal liberties have taken away our supposed “rights” as Americans. Nobody seems to give a damn though. We are more comfortable being “secure” in our lives with all the Goddamn safety nets there are, than to be free. Nobody is willing to fight, or at least not enough are. This is horse shit, the way you can’t do a Goddamn thing without government intrusion. WTF, I only got one life to live and it aint any good living it in chains.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Idiots of ignorance. Your Neo Conservative - Neo Liberal - Milton Friedman ideology will never work in the real world. Your as bad as the Utopian Communist idealists. The world is not simple and simple ideas fail when you scale it up to modern standards.
The fact is, all modern successful Governments and societies use mixed economies that factor in common sense social programs for human compassion, self-preservation law enforcement and regulation to preserve fairness and balance for each individual.
Without common sense approaches that take in all of man’s good and bad driving emotions we would end up with extremism that will always benefits but a few. As any student of history can see.
John Adams framed our Government
July 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
That’s a very silly idea.
Imagine the nightmare of the tax enforcement bureaucrats tracking every purchase everyone makes so they can effect this progressive, graduated sales tax.
The only solution is no taxes and a thorough strengthening of the Constitution along with the dismantling of all government functions not explicitly mandated by the US Constitution.
The prosperity and freedom that would come alive in this environment is indescribable. We became the richest nation in the world very quickly in a much more technically limited time because we were free. In todays world of technological wonder our economic growth and improvement of life beyond our wildest dreams. America would once again be the most admired country in the world.
With the internet people around the world will see what freedom brings and affect change in their own countries. This never happened in the past due to the lack of easy communication and access to information. In an online world change happens infinitely faster than in the past.
You’re all welcome to say I’m an idealist or just plain wrong but why would you? Even if it’s 1% as good as I think it would be it’s still well worth making happen. So do something, anything you can to spread the word of what could possibly be our future and maybe we’ll call get lucky.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I agree 100% its time for a new Revolution. I mean a real revolution, not some contract with America crap. It’s time we formed a new Citizen Military armed ourselves to the hilt and crashed the big party in Washington, hanging everyone of the traitors who have torn this nation down. There are only a handful of politicians in Washington who should not be hung. We need to tear the government apart and start over. The Federal governments only duty is National Defense period, everything else should start at the State level and lower. If Obama gets elected we must start the revolution before he is in office takes control of our military and allows Islamic Terrorist to flood this nation. If we are afraid to do this then we must force our states to secede from the Union. Something must be done NOW! The cold winds of tyranny are upon us.