First we need to rescind the 16th amendment so the SOB’s have no choice. A great benefit of going to a sales tax for federal revenue is that it would shift the power in government back from the feds to the states. The states collect sales tax already and should continue to do so if it becomes the source of the federal governments revenue. Next time Congress decides to bully the states they could simply refuse to send it in. Federal mandates would be a lot tougher to enforce if the states held the purse strings.

The federal government was originally created by the states to do those things best done by all the states rather than each one individually. The founders would be horrified to see the leviathan the federal government has become.

I think we should also rescind the 17th amendment and do away with the direct election of US Senators. If we went back to having the state legislatures choose them I think it would make them much more accountable to the states and we’d get a better quality of senators. It would certainly be cheaper.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.