Point made. Those falling in the tax free category could care less.
Is America a democracy?
Currently, approximately 40 percent of the working population pays no federal income taxes. The Democrat presidential and congressional tax proposals are specifically designed to make that 40 percent higher.
Once 51 percent get to live off the other 49 percent, we have a democracy. To maintain power, politicians will deliver meager programs that foster government dependence and accentuate class envy -- all the while being very careful to not let the 51 percent dependent population decline. Majority (mob, if you will) rule -- or more politely described: a democracy.
Was our nation founded as a democracy?
Our founders explicitly feared and openly ridiculed the concept of a democracy and, instead, founded our country as a constitutional republic: a nation with a purposefully weak federal government limited by the rule of law -- the Constitution.
The unraveling of the republic began with the passage of the 16th Amendment (income tax) and 17th Amendment (loss of individual state representation in the Congress) in 1913. A great proponent of both amendments, and one of the first to extensively describe our nation as a democracy, was Woodrow Wilson.
The unraveling accelerated under FDR as constitutional intent (see the Federalist and Anti-Federalist's papers) was repeatedly ignored in favor of a living Constitution. And, more recently, the actual text of the Constitution has been unconstitutionally redefined by Supreme Court jurists who openly state their desire for their decisions to be fair. We have inexorably devolved into a democracy and the word is carelessly sprinkled in speeches by all politicians.
Without the rule of law limiting the role of the federal government as defined by the Constitution, politicians (abetted by the liberal supreme beings of the court) buy votes in the form of pork spending and entitlements in order to gain and maintain power. They're not giving you anything; they are buying your votes at the expense of someone else.
Dale Schmacht, Evans
Comments
Point made. Those falling in the tax free category could care less.
And the Constitution protects the right of the voters to speak, which they will tomorrow. Goodbye to trickle down, pour up economics.
I'm guessing the letter writer doesn't find it scary that 40% of American workers are paid so little that the fall into that category. As they say, money equals power.As of 2001(last census figures), in terms of financial wealth, the top 1% hold 40%, the next 4% hold 28%. That leaves 32% of the nation's financial wealth divided among the remaining 95% of the population. No wonder so many middle and lower class working people are struggling. BTW the 17th Amendment allows for WE THE PEOPLE to elect our senators instead of the state legislatures. I think that is a positive development.
Whoever the Chronicle endorses, vote the opposite and you can't go wrong. This inculdes the Amendments.
Maverick: I agree; I voted the exact opposite from the AC endorsements.
President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 was quoted just three years later as saying, "I have unwittingly ruined my country. The growth of the nation, and therefore all of our activities, are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world". (Quoted in "National Economy and the Banking System," Senate Documents CO3, No.23, 76th Congress, 1st season, 1939)
Why steps weren't taken then to abolish the FED is beyond me, but there is ample evidence that the 2 main political parties today will continue to borrow, at the tax payer's expense, via this hidden tax, until, the FED is abolished. It is our responsibility to force our elected officials to spend, as our employees, within our budget (taxes). How can we expect the people we elect into office to operate without taxes? We all need to encourage the abolishment of the FED and have everyone pay their fair share.
Patty, once the Messiah is elected, expect the gleeful celebration to be short-lived. Because his supporters have no understanding of the concept of the rule of law, they will not understand the Democrats' undermining of that standard. Thus, when the 'majority' decides that clearly appalling things are legal, the ignorant nanny-staters will attribute their unforeseen consequences to some shadowy vast, right-wing conspiracy (Hill was just a little ahead of herself). Right now, much of the world is confusing the financial system with the economy, and is saying "things could not be worse," and that the Messiah, as the emblem of the greatest 'change,' is therefore representative of the greatest good. I remember Carter: double-digit inflation, double-digit prime rate, double-digit unemployment. Things CAN get worse; once nanny-staters control congress and the executive, things WILL get worse. However, since the press have demonstrated their complete and utter devotion to the Messiah, the ignorant dependent class who elected him and empowered Pelosi/Reid will not understand WHY things get worse. Once again, the specter of the shadowy activities of the evil rich will be cited as the cause
I'm with you Dale! I cringe whenever I hear one of our "EDUCATED" politicians refer to our country's form of government as "Democratic". I fear our country is too far gone to return to the glory that once was and that we'll continue our inexorable march toward pure socialism regardless of which majority party candidate gets elected.
Is America a democracy? No. It is a constitutional republic.
America is nothing more than a country spiraling out of control. Obama just wants his hand on the steering mechanism and the throttle to take it down faster ... so he can then join up with the enemies that wanted us there in the first place.
The enemy is the FED first, then it is we the people, for not taking the time to educate ourselves ie: google fiat money, the FED, and economics, and MAKING our elected officials responsible to us by keeping their spending within our means. We cannot trust the government. We know that it is both parties who continue to put us deeper and deeper in the hole financially. They WANT to be able to say they won't raise taxes, because they know that most Americans do not understand money. We are paying huge sums in taxes, but it is a hidden tax, by means of inflation, for which we get no deductions. This is the one thing Americans must learn to joint together on; it makes no difference who we vote for so long as they are people who will protect our liberties, versus squandering them to big banking and foreign countries, as has been the case. It is the FED that causes all wars, ALL WARS. Why? Because we borrow huge sums from them to conduct the wars. Check it out.
The Augusta Chronicle ©2012. All Rights Reserved.
