MSUspartan said:
Ok, so my biggest objective is with Federal taxation. The federal governments only main duty should be to protect our borders and supply a military. The rest of the duties should be given back to the states.
If a state votes to have a form of government health care, privatize school etc then that is their right. If I happen to live in that state, and I disagree with the law then I will move. That is how this country was founded and intended to run. We have lost the focus of our Founding Fathers by giving too much power to the Federal government.
it's great to argue that the Federal Gov't should just be there to protect our borders and not do anything else.
they tried that once. You may have heard of the "Articles of Confederation?" ...although given some of the other things you've stated here, I wouldn't bet on it. It couldn't even function to secure the borders, let alone defend the nation. Hence the constitutional convention, and the founding of a more powerful federal government, with the states subordinate to it. since that was over 200 years, ago, and you don't apparently read much, other than Glenn Beck Christmas stories, I wouldn't expect you to know much about it though.
unfortunately, the world TODAY is more complex than the conservative world view would like it to be. We haven't been a nation of small farmers providing their own sustenance since like 1820, and we're not going to go back there anytime soon.
We have over 300 million people in this country, and managing that population, with it's overwhelming urban nature requires sewers, roads, healthcare, disease control, police, fire, education, food regulation, market regulation, water, etc. etc. etc. And in order to have those things, we need to collect taxes to pay for them.
Since 1792 we've also learned more about how the world works, and invented new things that affect our lifestyle, so we've had to adapt the principles laid down in the U.S. Constitution to new things that weren't even considered at the time, like airplanes, automobiles, internet, electricity, etc. etc. And a lot of these things must be enforced or regulated on an inter-state level...
could you imagine what a disaster it would be to try and navigate a plane from NYC to LA if you had every state along the way controlling air traffic separately?
That's just one example of why your opinions in this regard are so overly simplistic as to be considered completely fucking retarded, or at best, so naive as to make me wonder whether you are have the intellect of a five year old.
