Today I explained the merits of the National Retail Sales Tax (The Fair Tax) to yet another class of business math students. The response I get, though, is always the same: “Why haven’t we done this yet?”
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Our government, though, can increase spending AND ask for more money on loan – all at the same time. At least for now.
But more than the taxes, the Health Care Reform Bill imposes – for the first time ever – a requirement that citizens of every state be required to have health care coverage. That is where the states have their problem.
What a contrast to the almost college-party atmosphere that surrounded the signing of the health care reform bill. Festivity surrounds the enactment of a rotten bill that among other things provides for abortion. Closed doors and no ceremonies accompany an act that saves babies.
The entire government is meant to be at odds with itself – with a certain amount of distrust and perhaps hostility –in order to protect the Republic which it serves.
