States, counties, cities and townships are all struggling to stay afloat, they are coming up with strange taxes to keep the business of government running, simply because RICH people, Corporations, and Banking/Finance CEO do not want to pay for the government services the all demand. Keep this fact in mind: If someone’s grand father has used the tax dodging codes to make and keep a lot of money, when he dies and leaves FIVE MILLION DOLLARS to his heir, that money, which should be UNEARNED INCOME is NOT TAXED, but if a working class person gets a fifty dollar a month raise in earned income, that money is taxed. HOW FAIR IS THAT? Also keep this in mind when estate taxes are not paid to the federal government, they are not paid to the state, city or local government as well. We all lose.

FACT: Spending is relative to income. The problem is not that government spending is “OUT OF CONTROL” the real problem is that government income is relatively non-existent when it comes to the rich and the burden of paying for the running of governments is dumped on to working class people of this country. Here’s another fact: a foreigner can work in this country and not be subject to American tax laws. So they can take money from this country, but they don‘t have to give any back. We The People pay for the goods and services that they receive. So remember, it is not government spending that is out of control, it is government income that is insufficient. The Bush/Obama tax cuts are bankrupting this entire country.

The founding fathers envisioned our government to be much much small, more like a confederacy (during the civil war the south was more right in their action, that being reduce the power of the federal gov’t and give the local gov’t, (who know their people better and know their needs better), more power and money. “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are

numerous and indefinite.” The Federalist No. 45, at 311 (Madison); see also U.S.

Const. art. I, § 1 (setting forth the specific legislative powers “herein granted” to

Congress). When the Bill of Rights was later added to the Constitution in 1791, the

Tenth Amendment reaffirmed that relationship: “The powers not delegated to the

United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The Framers believed that limiting federal power, and allowing the “residual”

power to remain in the hands of the states (and of the people), would help “ensure

protection of our fundamental liberties” and “reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse.” The positions of those in congress was meant to only be a part time position. Once a year those chosen would meet for a few week to write and vote on bills to be made law, following that they would return to the farms and business(thats why the pay the received was called a stipend, something to defray the cost of living only, while away from their real job.)…anyways…I’m tired…

take it light….

–KB

There already is one… it’s called a graduated income tax.