In all of those states where the congressional delegation voted against the economic stimulus package, where the crazy-ass legislators from the party of Hoover have made comments about how government spending never does any good, let me propose these steps:
1) Send out the Army's demolition engineers and close every on-ramp and off-ramp to the Interstate highways which cross those states.
2) Shut down the air-traffic control facilities in those states for awhile. ("Atlanta Unicom, Delta 327, which way y'all landing?") The crashes as 747s try to scud-run should be entertaining.
3) Close the ports.
4) Stop all rail traffic coming in or exiting from the West as, those railroads were built with government subsidies.
5) Close all river locks.
6) Shut down all of the Tennessee Valley Authority's generation plants.
7) Redirect all of the dollars from the stimulus packages to those states which were for it.
It probably won't help matters. So, what.
It's not hard to find reports that show that it is the states whose congressional delegations are largely from the party of Hoover which are the ones who get the most Federal money. We ought to make them live by their own creed.
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There are so many openings to easily fight back against their shit as you point out.
Why won't these fuckers who are supposed to be on our side fight for us.
We can also rip down all of the utility poles that were erected by the Rural Electrification Administration.
8) Refund them every penny they've paid in income tax.
9) .. and Federal gas taxes.
10) ... and Social Security
11) ... and stop collecting them in the future.
Or we could let the existing infrastructure stand, not pay any taxes back, and call off all future debts.
I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.
Oh, and let's take away their cable TV, because the government paid to develop the rocket technology used to lift the TV broadcasting satellites into orbit and we'll take away their Internet access because the government paid to develop that, too. We'll kick most of the college kids out of the schools in their states (between the land-grand colleges and the student loan programs).
Got any idea how you're going to pay for the Army, Justin?
How would I pay for the Army? Excise taxes.
Sure, it's a little extreme, but I'm not the one advocating Army Engineers smashing entrance ramps to the freeways. :)
My point was that if you really want to cut the Republican states off from the Federal teat, go for it. In turn you should let them of the hook with regards to income taxes. Traditionally those sparsely populated states receive more in Federal funding than they pay in anyway, so the net benefit to the national budget would be positive.
And I'd bet dollars to donuts that those states, free of the income tax, would find themselves experiencing huge economic booms.
Really. You really think that, Justin? How high will the sales taxes go, do you think? 30%? 35%? Who would pay more of their income in sales taxes?
Sales taxes are a "tax the poor" plan. Sales taxes are about the most regressive form of taxation there is. I really am surprised that you don't see the inherent evil in that.
Not a general sales tax, I'm not a FairTax supporter.
Excise taxes on items not required to actually survive in today's world. I'm quite aware that if you put a sales tax or a VAT on every item in production it'd be a regressive tax. I'm not looking for something like that.
What I would look for an an excise tax plan is something that would allow the common man (however we want to define that) to trade his time for money, shelter his family, feed, clothe, and educate them, all without paying a cent in Federal taxes unless he decides to buy something that is taxed by the government. There should always be an alternative to paying the tax. For instance if were to try and tax orange juice (not that I'd be for it) the actual oranges would be free from the tax. They could make their own orange juice without paying any taxes.
Naturally items like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, LSD, etc. would be taxed. Yes, I support legalizing and taxing the snot out of drugs. Money spent on these products does not help advance our nation as a whole, they provide no benefit to anybody but the user, and they may be taxed quite heavily. The first two already are.
The difficult part of such a plan is coming up with a tax scheme that isn't going to be regressive but still provide the level of funding that the Federal government is now accustomed to, which has risen to levels never seen unless engulfed in a world war. Nobody would buy into it unless it looked good on paper. I wouldn't mind it if such a plan only allotted the Federal government half its current revenue but I'm a minority in this country.
The beauty of such a system is it would give the citizens total control over government spending. Well, provided that they're actually not spending more than they take in, but I'm off in fantasy land here anyway. If you disagree with what the Federal government is doing you simply bow out of buying the products that they tax. Bush using your money to hold people in Gitmo? Stop buying the taxed products. Save your money, spend it on something else or sock it away into savings. Obama spending stimulus money? Same thing -- just quit paying into the system.
Instead of the Federal government holding a prison sentence over our heads if we don't send them every dollar we earn in the first 2, 3, or 4 hours of every work day we make them work for it.
Justin, I must admit that I am somewhat intrigued. But the details, especially the interaction between the excise taxes and local sales tax, would seem to be a real tough nut.
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