How else do we get taxes though? Believe me, I'm all for reform, but who is going to pay for things like national defense? Libertarians want to gut the military even more than the Democrats. How is President Trump going to enact revenge if we hamstring all the government departments that are going to help him?
Here we go again with gutting the military. Do you realize that 37% of federal employees work for the DoD? Another 11% work for Veteran Affairs. So, yeah, you can fire 95% of them, if you don't mind hamstringing the military and screwing over those who have already fought and sacrificed for our country. Not to mention other federal positions, like postal workers, weathermen, and several other small departments that keep things like GPS or the highway system working.
For the first approximately 80 yrs, except for a brief period during the Civil War, the US survived on tariffs Even in the 1920's, only 2% of the US expenditures came from income tax. From 1868 until 1913, 90 percent of all revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine and tobacco.
Enter the Depression and FDR, with the Fed's blessing, throwing money around like only a Democrat can. He and the politicians rubbing their grubby hands together once they realized they could steal money from US citizens and call it "income tax".
Not to mention these days, Federal employment is insane. There are 3 million Federal employees earning an avg. of $100,000/year.
3000000 x $100000 = 300 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR
Praying POTUS will drastically cut the number of employees once he is reelected.
The income tax came in well before FDR, when the Republicans were in charge because the federal government couldn't function on taxes on alcohol and tobbaco. The expansion of the federal government led to the greatest economic surge this country has ever seen. We couldn't have fought WW2 without it. And where will these job cuts come from? Even if you wiped out the entire Department of Justice, that would only be about 3% of the federal work force. The largest federal government departments are the DoD (37%) and the VA (11%). It would be hard to make cuts without basically destroying the military and screwing over veterans. How would we pay for all those? And why should a bunch of California billionaires get all their money tax-free?
I understand the income tax was instituted before FDR. My point, apparently not well made was that FDR and gov't saw income tax as way to tax and spend and they've been on that joyride ever since..
Why did we even fight WWII? The US should have stayed out of it.
Keep the military BUT stay out of foreign wars like stupid Ukraine. Our military should protect our country and our borders. If government leaders want to fight overseas, let them and their families don fatigues.
Most of all, we need transparency in ALL agencies that would survive a purge.
Alright, so you cut foreign aid and have reduced the federal budget by.... (calculating)... 1%. Then what? Should we just axe the military, medicaid, and social security?
Better to fight a war on foreign soil than our own. Do you think if we just pulled back and did our own thing, the rest of the world would leave us alone? Do you remember 9/11?
IRS nullified. Yes pls
From our lips to God's ears.
I'm going to wake Ron Paul up lol. Today might be the day
How else do we get taxes though? Believe me, I'm all for reform, but who is going to pay for things like national defense? Libertarians want to gut the military even more than the Democrats. How is President Trump going to enact revenge if we hamstring all the government departments that are going to help him?
Here we go again with gutting the military. Do you realize that 37% of federal employees work for the DoD? Another 11% work for Veteran Affairs. So, yeah, you can fire 95% of them, if you don't mind hamstringing the military and screwing over those who have already fought and sacrificed for our country. Not to mention other federal positions, like postal workers, weathermen, and several other small departments that keep things like GPS or the highway system working.
For the first approximately 80 yrs, except for a brief period during the Civil War, the US survived on tariffs Even in the 1920's, only 2% of the US expenditures came from income tax. From 1868 until 1913, 90 percent of all revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine and tobacco.
Enter the Depression and FDR, with the Fed's blessing, throwing money around like only a Democrat can. He and the politicians rubbing their grubby hands together once they realized they could steal money from US citizens and call it "income tax".
Not to mention these days, Federal employment is insane. There are 3 million Federal employees earning an avg. of $100,000/year. 3000000 x $100000 = 300 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR Praying POTUS will drastically cut the number of employees once he is reelected.
The income tax came in well before FDR, when the Republicans were in charge because the federal government couldn't function on taxes on alcohol and tobbaco. The expansion of the federal government led to the greatest economic surge this country has ever seen. We couldn't have fought WW2 without it. And where will these job cuts come from? Even if you wiped out the entire Department of Justice, that would only be about 3% of the federal work force. The largest federal government departments are the DoD (37%) and the VA (11%). It would be hard to make cuts without basically destroying the military and screwing over veterans. How would we pay for all those? And why should a bunch of California billionaires get all their money tax-free?
I understand the income tax was instituted before FDR. My point, apparently not well made was that FDR and gov't saw income tax as way to tax and spend and they've been on that joyride ever since.. Why did we even fight WWII? The US should have stayed out of it.
Keep the military BUT stay out of foreign wars like stupid Ukraine. Our military should protect our country and our borders. If government leaders want to fight overseas, let them and their families don fatigues.
Most of all, we need transparency in ALL agencies that would survive a purge.
Cut off foreign aid (money laundering).
Awwww... No more 10% for the Big Guy!
Alright, so you cut foreign aid and have reduced the federal budget by.... (calculating)... 1%. Then what? Should we just axe the military, medicaid, and social security?
Yea because none of our money is outright stolen through each of those programs.
Except the US military has mainly been used for anything but defense.
So true! Our military is used to fight other countries wars. When was the last time they defended the US? It's been a while.
Better to fight a war on foreign soil than our own. Do you think if we just pulled back and did our own thing, the rest of the world would leave us alone? Do you remember 9/11?
9/11 was a false flag