This is from an e-mail I sent to a pretty well-known economist and is part one of possibly two in my short “emails uncovered” series. I excluded all the unnecessary stuff and edited the spacing for visibility reasons. I also edited the grammar.:
One of the reasons I am voting for Ron Paul in 2012 is because of his platform, specifically two items: getting rid of the progressive income tax and introducing currency competition legislation.
Those two are worth my vote alone.
If you think about it, for the first time in almost 100 years we have the opportunity to get rid of the progressive income tax and the federal reserve.
That’s not mentioning ending the Department of Education and 4 other departments on the conservative’s most hated list that’s on Ron’s to-do-list when in office.
What are those five departments?
Cuts $1 trillion in spending during the first year of Ron Paul’s presidency, eliminating five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education), abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and returning responsibility for security to private property owners, abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, and returning most other spending to 2006 levels.
This is really moderate. There is a lot that could be cut back but who knows what kind of uproar there would be against a $1.6 trillion spending reduction plan (that’s including other inefficient departments that could be cut).
But anyway…
The choice for me is simple: All the other candidates hack at the branches, Ron Paul strikes at the root!
The era–nearly 100 years–of big government will be over because he goes after two of the biggest engines of big government: the progressive income tax and the federal reserve.
For why the progressive income tax is so bad and its history, try these articles from the liberty-promoting magazine The Freeman:
The Progressive Income Tax and the Joy of Spending Other People’s Money || The Freeman
And as an added bonus, since we are talking about taxes, I thought I’d link to an article critiquing the flat tax and fair tax, since so many South Carolinian conservatives seem to want one or the other.
The Flat Tax Is Not Flat and the FairTax Is Not Fair || Mises Institute
MP3 Version: The Flat Tax Is Not Flat and the FairTax Is Not Fair || Mises Institute
Word-bound slavery; that’s one of many ways to describe it. The U.S. Constitution is one of many examples. Everything according to a program, according to “word of law”. Of all of the cultural elements the written/spoken language is the most incidious and the most destructive. Nevermind all the implements of war; languages are weapons of mass destruction that have done the most damage since the creation of the first “civilizations”. It’s been artificially induced into the human “genome” by our own encroaching arrogance of the natural elements. The human species has slated itself for a long miserable extinction and it will take many other lifeforms with it creating more languages to validate its existance; and even possibly take this entire planet with it, turning it into another garbage dump of the Milky way. Thank you very much. Now go away.