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Government is certainly the problem, when it is funded in a way such as ours is today.

Do away with income taxes on working people altogether would be a solution

Its not "got mine screw you" its quit picking my tattered pockets to fund your life of luxury

I didn't say that we should have no taxes. I said we should do away with income taxes on working people.

There's plenty of alternative means to funding government,,,,

egads101 says

The deficits are coming down dramatically as we speak. To further that end:

1. end the wars.

2. legalize and tax pot.

3. legalize and tax prostitution.

4. raise taxes on those who make more than $300k a year.

5. reintroduce an estate tax, on estates over say $2 million.

6. Sell visas to illegal immigrants, give them a legal right to stay. why the F should coyotes make $10K to bring a gardner into the country?

Thats just a start.

I agree with 1,2,3,6.

The real problem stems from the entitlements. Any politician who makes any serious reforms to these is committing political suicide. The real key is educate the mutts so they vote intelligently.

Another factor is that the US has been forced into being a spending country because China has held down the value of the Yuan. This is changing a lot.

Another factor is that US history has conflated government with other things such as religion or "the purpose of equality" in neither is in the Constitution and prevents a reconciliation of these problems because of this conflation.

It should create a rule of law, national defense, some regulation and that is pretty much it. It sure as FUCK has no business in healthcare, subsidies, tariffs, endless wars, financial equality, ANY violations of the 10 amendment, or a Federal government that subjugates the states.