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Addicted to Revenue
Does the US Government Have a Spending Problem?
-by Scott Rohter, July 2011

Does the U.S. Government have a spending problem?  What do you think?... I think it is called an addiction to revenue.  Perhaps we should rename the IRS.  Maybe it should be called, the Addicted to Revenue Service, the A.T.R.S.!  I support a National sales tax and the repeal of the Federal income tax!  The Federal income tax was un-constitutional over one hundred years ago when it was created, and it is probably still un-constitutional today, in spite of the law!  I also support a twelve-step program for our ailing Federal Government. No more one last Debt Ceiling increases for them,... in the same way that there are no more 'one last drinks' for alcoholics, and no more 'one last fix' for junkies! Let's face it, our U.S. Federal Government is Addicted to Revenue! It has a spending problem, a big spending problem! It is like a money-junkie on steriods! Inevitabley this won't be the last Debt Ceiling increase. There will be one last Debt Ceiling increase this time, and one last Debt Ceiling increase the next time, and the next time after that! There will always be one more last Debt Ceiling increase! So why not kick the habit now, 'cold turkey'? Why not draw the proverbial line in the political sand right here, and not raise the Federal Debt Ceiling again? I'll tell you this, if we raise the Federal Debt Ceiling now, then we will raise it again!

A tax on individual income is compulsory!  It leaves most Americans with no other choice but to pay it!  You can’t avoid paying income tax because you can't ever stop working to support yourself and your family! That is, you can't unless you are rich enough that you don't need to work! However, a National Sales Tax based on consumption would be voluntary!  It would give taxpayers an option!  If we didn’t want to support this, that, or the other government policy, then we could decide not to buy this, that, or the other product, and thus, not pay the sales tax on it, that went to fund the particular policy that we didn’t support!  The Government might get the message from the marketplace, and we just might have a more responsible and a more representative US Government!  Anyway, we can still dream!  In any event it would sure be better than what we have now!  The US Constitution provides that, The States [not the people] shall collect and pay taxes to the Federal Government based upon their population.  (US Constitution, Article 1 Section 2 and 9.)

"A journalist has no better friend than the truth." - Scott Rohter                                Share