Posted by
darrelmulloy on Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:04:00 AM
Have you noticed that some of the big guns in the Republican race are starting to sound like Ron Paul? McCain is saying that spending is out of control, Huckabee is trying to convince Republicans that he is not for birthright citizenship, and Romney is declaring that Washington is broken.
Why would Republican voters want to settle for counterfeit when the genuine article is available? Ron Paul has always known that spending is out of control in Washington, and wants to clarify the fourteenth amendment so that it is clear that it was the children of those brought into this country as slaves, not children of illegal aliens who snuck into this country in violation of our law, who were to be given birthright citizenship. His voting record is proof that he has known for a long time that Washington is broken, but it can be fixed.
Dr. Paul knows that if we get our government pared back to the size it was when Bill Clinton was president in 1997 that we could eliminate entirely, the federal income tax. Government at that time was too big, so there is an incentive to cut it back even further, thereby reducing our budget deficit and perhaps even showing a budget surplus.
Mike Huckabee wants to replace the income tax with a "23%" fair tax on consumer goods. That is in itself a lie, since what the fair tax people propose is in reality a 30% tax. Either way, unless the 16th amendment is first repealed, and the income tax buried, proposing a new way of taxing could only end up as an additional way of taxing. Ron Paul wants first, to repeal the 16th amendment, then end the income, inheritance, and capital gains taxes, abolish the IRS, the single biggest employer in the country, and letting them find jobs in the private sector that would grow by leaps and bounds without the constraints of taxes.
If you want the real deal, vote for Ron Paul. If you are willing to accept counterfeit you have McCain, Huckabee, Romney, or even Guliani or Thompson. Duncan Hunter is real too. How about a Paul/Hunter ticket for 2008.