Richard Cox Wrote:
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> I just thought you all might want to know which
> party really is responsible for the problems we
> are in right now. Check out this article from the
> New York Times (a very liberal, possibly
> considered democratic paper) that was published 6
> months before Clinton got out of office. Now,
> given, very few Republicans stood up and tried to
> stop this either, but McCain did! Just for your
> info, I am currently unaffiliated because I
> absolutely hate what these people in Washington
> are doing to our country!
> And might I add, taxes are one of the main reasons
> that led our forefathers to fight for our
> independence. Taxes were without representation
> and too high. Raising taxes has never, and I mean
> never, been a good solution to anything. Money in
> the pockets of the private sector is always
> watched over better and spent more wisely. So, ask
> yourself these questions? Why did our forefathers
> think it was worth dying for to get rid of too
> high of taxes without representation? Has anything
> in the tax department, principle wise, changed in
> the last couple hundred years? Do you trust
> yourself with your hard earned money more than you
> trust the government, be they democrats,
> republicans, libertarians, greens, socialists, or
> whatever? In all simpleness and common sense, why
> would you vote for someone whose plan will raise
> taxes at all, and who's plan is so confusing it
> has taken this entire forum of arguing points to
> even attempt to try and explain it. Frankly, I
> don't want someone as my President whose tax plan
> cannot be clearly explained or understood. God
> bless America (because nobody in Washington has
> this in the forefront of their plans)!
> Oh, and here is the article.
>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0
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Our forefathers didn't die to get rid of "too high" taxes, they fought to end taxes without representation, to end taxes that paid for the crown's wars against france and to support the colonial ambitions that didn't affect the American colonists.
Don't forget the whiskey rebellion.
George Washington sent troops into western PA and actually used those troops to kill the grain farmers who were protesting the unfair taxes on their whiskey, which was the only form of their grain crops that was economically viable to ship over the mountains, in order to make money. If they could have shipped their grains over the mountains to make money, they would have, but it was too expensive, so they chose to refine those grains into alcohol, but then the new federal government imposed a tax on alcohol, and that made it cost prohibitive to ship the grain as raw grain or as alcohol, and they were losing money.
There's a huge difference between being taxed on something when you have no say and being taxed on something because you have a responsibility to your country.
But trying to invoke the founding fathers is a dead end. They did their share of bad tax policies, and even used the military to enforce their tax policies.