Hurry Up to Stop

This is taken from Congressman Paul’s website ronpaul2008.com

by Ron Paul, Dr.   January 30, 2003

January 30, 2003

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce the Liberty Amendment, which repeals the 16th Amendment, thus paving the way for real change in the way government collects and spends the people’s hard-earned money. The Liberty Amendment also explicitly forbids the federal government from performing any action not explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.

The 16th Amendment gives the federal government a direct claim on the lives of American citizens by enabling Congress to levy a direct income tax on individuals. Until the passage of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court had consistently held that Congress had no power to impose an income tax.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life. Thanks to the income tax, today the federal government routinely invades our privacy, and penalizes our every endeavor.

The Founding Fathers realized that “the power to tax is the power to destroy,” which is why they did not give the federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the federal government.

Income taxes not only diminish liberty, they retard economic growth by discouraging work and production. Our current tax system also forces Americans to waste valuable time and money on complacence with an ever-more complex tax code. The increased interest in flat-tax and national sales tax proposals, as well as the increasing number of small businesses that questioning the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) “withholding” system provides further proof that America is tired of the labyrinthine tax code. Americans are also increasingly fed up with an IRS that continues to ride roughshod over their civil liberties, despite recent “pro-taxpayer” reforms.

Mr. Speaker, America survived and prospered for 140 years without an income tax, and with a federal government that generally adhered to strictly constitutional functions, operating with modest excise revenues. The income tax opened the door to the era (and errors) of Big Government. I hope my colleagues will help close that door by cosponsoring the Liberty Amendment.

People who water the weed in their yard called grass, and who wash their car and who use water to hose off their driveway and sidewalk are not very intelligent.  That is precious drinking water, that if you haven’t heard, we need to live.

We are lucky to have been born in America where all I have to do is turn a faucet to have access to clean drinking water, while most of the rest of the world has to walk a great distance just to get muddy water that might even have animal or human shit in it. And even though we know this, people still waste our drinking water to hose off a sidewalk because it has some bird crap on it…

And watering lawns is so stupid that I don’t even know where to begin… Let me get this right, you water this weed so it grows, and then when it grows you cut it…

What’s even worse are the idiots who water their yards in the middle of the day in the summer. A little commen sense here folks…  90% of the water  from your sprinkler on a hot day instantly evaporates… Anyways, that’s a little off topic…

Finally bottled water… there is no health benefit to drinking bottled water over tap water. If you are so rich that you don’t care about paying $10 a gallon for water you can get from a tap for a penny, well more power to you… It’s just as convienent to fill up a water bottle at home and take it with you, as it is to stop somewhere and buy bottled tap water.

Bottom line, stop wasting drinking water on stupid meaningless things like, cars and grass.

Tap vs. Bottled Water

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