In the end what really happens is the bigwig politicians take the money and end up crushing the little guy who makes the money – however no one has had money of any worth since Nixon and the debasing of the currency from the gold standard.  What do we have now?  The ‘How does the country feel’ standard.

At least gold never got depressed.

We have a successful director, actor, and otherwise talented man named Wesley Snipes being sent to prison because he did not want to pay an illegal taxation.  Yes, it is illegal, when it was passed Ohio never ratified it correctly, and then later a judge retroactively declared it legal – which is a no no.  In any case the government has become reliant on this tax, and in so doing puts the burden of the need of the government upon the backs of the poor and the middle class, and finally the rich too.

What do we gain from income tax?  A perpetual war time economy fueled by a standing army and military industrial complex, a social security system that is sucking the life out of the next generations, a medicare and medicaid system that are just pure contemptible horse manure, and finally a need for more money.  The Federal Government is like a crack addict, snorting up all our greenbacks while printing more and living in a delirium that everything will be okay, in spite of the enormous deficit.

To fix this inevitable collapse of our government, which is on the way to becoming a global empire that uses war to sustain it, we must look no further than Thomas Jefferson and Jeffersonian ideals.

Smaller government, and more state responsibility.  Today the states have less than a fourth of the responsibility they should have.  We should therefore eliminate many massive federal programs, and instead turn over control to the states.  If you did Medicare and Medicaid this way, along with many other programs (agricultural department is redundant, each state already has one) you could save enough to be making a surplus right now of a few hundred billion dollars.  Not enough to cut personal income tax though.

However, if we shut down the war, and shut down our over sea empire, bring all our men and women home where they ought to be, and end this forsaken activity of empire building we could save billions more.  Enough to eye the Personal Income Tax and start getting the chainsaw ready.  Furthermore if you look at the tax number, you will see that eventually you can save 200 or more BILLION a year and still DROP THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX. Sorry for those of you who like grammar, I had to point that out.

Additionally I did this without even touching social security.  Phase that out and you have a +400-600 billion per year to that 200 billion.

If I was able to at this point, I would also deregulate many things and allow for the market to rule, along with lifting restrictions on consumers and their direct affect upon it.  By allowing them to sue for environmental damages, and anything else that is wrong, the EPA will be secondary to set precedent and real damages to companies that cause pollution.

Under this system we will have a country that is lighter, and better, at the federal level.  That surplus could be put into a government trust – and gold would be the standard again.  Eventually there will be trillions in a surplus.  What will this do?  Assure our country’s survival for the foreseeable future and beyond.  It could be a trust fund that would only be used when needed, such as disasters and war.  If it saved up 40 trillion dollars, sans the current inflation because of the gold standard, we could fight a war to mars and back if warranted.

I am not an anti-war person – however I am anti-aggressor.  We should always be fighting the good war, the defensive battle.  Never sacrifice freedom for safety.  Never sacrifice our moral authority for money.  We must be the shining city on the hill, except instead of a city a whole country that leads the future.  We cannot do this in disgrace.  The step to bringing back out glory is to bring back our government.

We have to be fighting for the glories of our past, the righteous and pure ideals of a war we fought against tyranny.  We must not be that tyranny, we must be liberty, we must be justice, we must be the embodiment of an enlightened society that is out of the dark ages and not tempted by power and greed.  We must have hope of a better future, and we must have hope of one that will look to the constitution for guidance, not as a parchment made by dead men 230 years ago, but as a guide set forth by those who saw the future and within it left the ideals of a better country and form of government.

We must also bring in the philosophy of the smartest man to ever live: Thomas Jefferson.  Less is best.  Local people making local decisions and solving local problems, not some federal dictatorial cover-all system.  That is not what we are about.  We are about the individual.

Through this the education of this country will improve once again.  Fighting for our freedoms should not end with the end of our great revolution, it should never end.  Dissent should be protected, and fostered.  Opinion is sacred – but the ability to clash is even more holy in the eyes of a government run correctly.

We face before us the choices of a generation that can either salvage the mistakes of the past, or continue them, or worse.  We have the power to change this country, and make it better for us and our children, and their children.  It is through the virtue of a government run for the good of the people and the freedom of the people that we can regain what we lost.

We shall regain our trust, we shall regain our image, we shall regain our moral authority, we shall regain our secularism, we shall regain our economy and we will regain our jobs.  By making our country more competitive and leading by example we can light the world on fire with change.  Others shall follow our new groove, our new style of the old ways that made us great in the past.  But to do this, to accomplish it all, we must not vote the lesser evil.

We must vote for someone who believes in all of this as much as I do.

We must support no matter the odds, no matter the cost, and we must MARCH in JULY to show our solidarity.

Viva Le Revolution, and Viva Ron Paul!