--- In [email protected], "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > > What should be the tax rate: > > > Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does > it say anything about me havi8ng to pay > a federal income tax. (we don't have an > income tax here in Texas). So, I am > opposed to payroll income taxes. > > So, if I had to pay a federal income tax, > I'd prefer to pay a flat tax, but it > should be very low, because the federal > government should be very small. >
I agree 100%. Indeed, Willy, I was discussing the following with a friend a while back: it seems to me that the surge in federal spending has resulted, at least in part, to the 17th amendment of the constitution which transferred selection of U.S. senators from selection by each state legislature to popular vote. The original idea of the Senate was, in addition to being a chamber of sober second thought, a hold or check on federal power and spending. And because the senators were creatures of and representing the states, it was in the Senate where grand schemes and runaway spending would be held in check. As someone opposed to the crazy kind of spending and meddling by the federal government in things that were NEVER envisioned by them to be doing by the fathers of this country, I think that the repeal of the 17th amendment should be considered. That way, we could have a body holding the craziness going on now in check.
