Letter to my Representitive and Senators
I started to write a letter to send to my representatives and senators about what I would like to see to them. My intent is to have it be fairly strongly worded.
I was wondering if others here would take a look at it and provide their feedback. It needs to be concise enough that someone will read it but long enough to cover a few major points.
As it evolves I will update it on this thread, and anyone my use it, in whole or in part for there own letters to there representatives..
I was wondering if others here would take a look at it and provide their feedback. It needs to be concise enough that someone will read it but long enough to cover a few major points.
As it evolves I will update it on this thread, and anyone my use it, in whole or in part for there own letters to there representatives..
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The continental congress tried the voluntary method and we were bankrupt. Washington and Hamilton started the method of clubbing some minority over the head (by the majority) with the whiskey tax and we have been doing ever since.
We do have to pay back the money we have borrowed and we do have to operate a military (though we can exist with a much smaller one). How do we pay for it with no taxes?
It would change the motivations of people voting so yes, I want the one fat tax only because it would open eyes. It is also the reason why we will likely never see it happen.
Why an Income tax? I agree with you that it would be better as a sales tax. I fear that if we ask for a sales tax it would morph into an additional tax rather than replacement tax.
Nice points on EPA, Department of Interior and farm subsidies (actually subsidies in general).
What about farm subsidies?
• Tax
o Income tax needs to be the only federal tax on US entities. This means citizens, corporations and investment taxes. It needs to be charged against all forms of income at the same rate (corporate taxes, capital gains taxes go away and income taxes are applied to these entities and income types at the same rate)
o All other federal fees and taxes (anything where the federal government further steals money from its citizens) needs to be revoked. IE not death tax, no FICA…. Alter the federal income tax rate accordingly
o Work towards a fair tax that charges each person the same rate regardless of their income level or any other standing. This is the only way a tax is fair and they must be brought into a state of fairness between all those that pay them. No graduated tax schedule, no deductions. A flat rate that is identical for everyone.
• Borrowing
o We need to operate within our means, and pay down a minimum of 5% of what we have borrowed every year. (while I realize we cannot hit this quickly, it should be our goal and as such be discussed on how we get there.)
• Foreign Aid
o End it. Until we can pay for what we have here at home, foreign aid is a great thing that we cannot afford.
• United Nations
o End our financial Contributions. Again until we can take care of our finances here we cannot afford it.
• Welfare System
o End it. This will have to be a gradual thing, but it belongs in local communities where there will be far less waste. Not at the federal level, or even the state level.
• Social Security
o At worst the retirement age needs to increase greatly (say to 80) and at best it needs to be eliminated along with the taxes associated with it.
• Military Spending
o Lower it. We do not need to be the American Empire. We need bases that protect our own lands, not the lands of the Germans, the Japanese or any other lands. We need to respect their sovereignty and their ability to keep it on their own, or lose it on their own.
• Department of Education
o Work to eliminate it at the federal level. Our school systems have gotten worse since the federal government became involved, get back out. Let the states run the schools or even better let counties or cities do it. The smaller and more local the better. We need a melting pot of competition and ideas in our school system on how to best teach our kids. This has always worked better than some buacracy telling us how to do it form the top.
• Department of Urban Development
o Eliminate it. What are we doing attempting to control urban development from the federal government? Its just plain wrong.
• Department of Energy
o Eliminate this department. States should run this. They will do it better and every state would be in competition for providing more cost effective and clean power. That competition would bring in good ideas and each of the states would improve and take ideas from each other that worked. Right now this is a sink hole that simply sucks money out of the government.
In short if you vote for anything that expands the role of the federal government (its well outside its constitutional scope now) you are not only failing to represent me, but you are a traitor to your country. The federal government is too big, too powerful and controls far too much of our lives. It has expanded beyond its constitutionally defined scope. It did so when the federal government started to assist with railroad construction because “It was too big for the private sector to do on its own.” This too big to fail mentality has continued on and off since that time and it must be rooted out of our thinking. Any Representative or Senator that is not attempting to root out this concept, lower the federal government’s scope/power and control is an enemy to the United States of America and a traitor to the constitution.