Are you living in a police state because you can’t legally drive without a driver’s license? Are you living in a police state because you can’t legally drink and drive on state owned highways? It’d be the same deal with refusing to pay a flat national sales tax. You get a DUI, you can’t drive. Refuse to pay natl. sales tax as business owner above lemonade stand or farmer stand, you don’t drive. It’s a much better incentive for business owners to pay the tax than the IRS cartel we’ve got now.

No, no one’s gonna shut off your electricty as long as you can afford to pay it. Don’t worry, you could still surf the web as much as you want at your business as long as you can afford it, just like you can now. If for some reason you can’t, battery powered radio still exists, believe it or not. You wouldn’t miss out on your global warming armageddon reports from the Weather Channel.

Would you stop an ambulance from going 80 in a 40 zone? Would you stop a husband from rushing their pregnant wife in labor to the hospital? There’re obvious exceptions to speed limits, just as there’re obvious exceptions to a tax code. Also, just because you might refuse to pay a national sales tax as a business owner doesn’t mean you don’t pay one grabbing a milkshake at McDonalds on your way home.

Look, all this is just an idea. Nothing’s set in stone here.

“-banned from using them.”

So had the Columbine shooters lived, they should’ve been welcomed back into a public school with open arms because it should be “freely accessible to everyone,” as you claim?

“Oh no, they’re gonna be without a flu vaccine.”

Never underestimate the natural immune system. Don’t know about you, but I haven’t gotten a flu shot in years. Remember the swine flu scare, Obama’s “national emergency?” More people die per month on a regular basis than died from swine flu at all in this country.

Remember, you can always get a ride to get a flu shot if God forbid you’ve got multiple DUIs.

Should a convicted child sex-offender be allowed to walk around a grade school playground because it should be “freely accessible to everyone?” Or, is it realistic that if some people violate a public service that they shouldn’t be allowed to use them?

Want to know the real national unemplyment rate? Around 12-16%. The Clinton administration stopped counting people who stopped looking for jobs, and it’s been policy ever since! Sound like recovery to you? What was the price of gasoline four years ago? How much could you buy with that dollar in your pocket four years ago? What was the housing market REALLY like four years ago? What’d the national debt look like four years ago?

Four years ago, I had a stable job, a good home, lived in a great community, and my kids went to great schools. We lived in rural smalltown CT for 20 years.

The last four years have seen a mass exodus, of Biblical proportions, of people from high tax states like CT because there is no job growth! Name one new business that’s come to CT these last four years without handouts from the libtard moron governor Dan Maloy. My company couldn’t keep me, and couldn’t find a job at all in the Northeast because nobody’s hiring! Not Boston, not New York, nowhere! And no, if I settled for a job below my calibre, it would’ve meant no food for one or two of my four kids, no car, no home, or anything. That’s Bernankenomics for you. A human resources management job, field I was in, finally opened up in VANCOUVER, WA, of all places; on the other side of the country. It was either relocating my whole family, including my 90 year old mother in law, and my eldest son who was a senior in high school, all the way across the country, or to live in a gutter in Waterbury somewhere. Why Washington state? As much as their weather sucks the life out of you most of the year, they have no state income tax! IThey believe in this novel idea where people can keep money they earn, AND TO SAVE IT! Californians flock up here too for that. Unfortunately, I was out of work again when another company bought out this company, and I was out of work again for another year. A small business we’ve opened up in Battle Ground now is a huge hit with the locals, but my wife and I had to drain all of our life savings to get it afloat. We’re slowly making up for it.

Had we tried to open a business in socialist New England, we wouldn’t've been able to do it outside New Hampshire. That’s where power hungry zealots like that Barney Frankenstein, that criminal Chris Dodd, and that Dick Blumenthal come from.

If we ended the Fed, Geithner would obviously have to go. A ballgame can’t be one with one star slugger with everyone else asleep. We’re out of the Great Recession alright, cuz we’ve entered a second Great Depression, and Osama Bin Bernanke’s not gonna bring us out of it. To anyone says otherwise, today might be a good day to lay off the Miami bath salt.

Several private tyrants, if given monopoly over your money, can be just as destructive, if not more so than just one at the Treasury Department.

And that’s why we shouldn’t elect the Treasury Secreatary either. There’d have to be much more congressional oversight over the Treasury issuing currency period, or anything they do. Although competing currencies, another idea being floated around, would get the politicians out of issuing money period, it would cause complete chaos to savings, assets, prices, and some places excepting one currency over another. A dollar backed up by gold or silver would be better, as also suggested by Steve Forbes, Milton Friedman, and others. It’s not a Ron Paul idea.

“Let me emphasize that this note is not a plea for a return to a gold standard…. I regard a return to a gold standard as neither desirable nor feasible?with the one exception that it might become feasible if the doomsday predictions of hyperinflation under our present system should prove correct.” Before he said that, he also mentioned this: “A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with (classical) liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.”

Make no mistake, Milton was no fan of the Fed. In a 1993 letter to Robert Auerbach, U. of Texas economics professor and former House Banking Committee investigator, he wrote:

“I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results. “

But the first thing you should apologize to the Congresswoman about is that you don’t stand up for your principles like she does in congress. It’d be a shame to see people like you back away from an argument just because you know you got a fact wrong. But it’ll also be hard to convince anyone you’re right having already proved yourself wrong.

By being opposed to Osama Bin Bernanke manipulating the currency, you assume I’d want Tim Gutter in charge of it.

Without a question, if the US Dept of the Treasury were once again in charge of fiscal policy, I THE TREASURY SEC COULDN’T BE TIMOTHY GEITHNER.

Ever see Ghostbusters?

You think “choose the form of the destructor” is the only choice Americans have.

He offends me, I could’ve died on 9/11. It was not an inside job, and it wasn’t Jewish/ illuminati/rothsbilderburger/meisterbergur/alien/bankers either. It was Osama’s Al Qaeda, with varying involvement and/or prior knowledge of Pakistani intel, Saudi royal family members, Iranian Rev. Guard, Assad’s Syria, and Saddam’s Repub. Guard.

I don’t listen to Alex Jones because he’s a moron.

Who’s Gerald Celente? Never heard of him. You seem to know a lot about the show though, you mind filling us all in on how illuminati Israelis are gonna take over the world?

chickening out would be an insult to your intelligence.

A flat tax is a good step in the right direction. To be honest with you, I pushed for Herman Cain in the primaries and Fred Thompson back in ’08.

During the roaring 20′s, as much as the left lies about it causing the depression, our economy was booming. The toaster oven, refrigerator, the radio, the Model-T, highways, vacation homes in Florida, and an average of a 4-5% unemployment rate throughout the decade nationwide. More people could live better and jobs were plentiful. Even Al Capone’s street war fought over prohibition created jobs thanks to a demand in a then illegal substance called alcohol The Federal Reserve, created in 1913, played a very limited role initially, and our dollar was still mostly backed by metals. The ecnomy did fine. HOWEVER, the problem that existed wasn’t a lack of regulation over the market, it was too much regulation by Hoover, the Fed, and later FDR that sank us deeper into the not so Great Depression.

So yes, we can live without a Fed. I never said that we would live well without a central bank. The Fed’s a private entity, not a govt agency.

For the record, I supported Fred Thompson in ’08 and pulled for Herman Cain in the primaries this time. I happen to share many of Paul’s views on domestic issues, while I’m vehemently opposed to his foreign policy. It doesn’t mean I buy his whole package.

And relax, I never suggested we should live without a central bank. The idea of competing currencies, Andrew Jackson’s “wildcat banks,” is complete chaos. Do you want us to look like Somalia some day? I know I don’t.

The Federal Reserve is NOT a government agency, it’s a private one that manipulates our money with little to no oversight by anybody. Talk about elitism, each Fed chairman is selected by the president just like the Treasury Secretary is. But unlike Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke can’t be vetted or “hassled” by congress.

I also never said that ALL taxes should be voluntary. Just had a thought that scrapping the progressive income tax for a flat income tax, and eventually a flat national sales tax, would be a good idea. A voluntary flat national sales tax, as I laid out, would actually inadvertently be involuntary.

If a national sales tax were implemented, the feds would collect the tax mostly at businesses, because consumers are the ones that pay the sales tax. I guess if you lived on your own plot of land, washed up in your own pond, sheared your own clothes from sheep you happened to raise yourself, hunt pigeons, eat bugs and grubs, grew some wild plants, and lived in a self sustaining mud hut like Yoda, good for you, you avoid paying a sales tax. You could sell any produce at a farm highway stand tax free, but that’d probably be your only source of income. Good luck living a comfortable life, you’d need it. The force would definately have to be with you.

So yes, most people would still pay the tax whether they’d realize it or not, all without percieved compulsion. Don’t worry, the US wouldn’t decend into a bad Yoko Ono concert, as if there’s ever been a good one.

So applying your insane Fed worship (“love it or leave it”), we should still be a British colony right?

Thank God we didn’t have you at Bunker Hill, you’d've fought with the British because the militias at Lexington and Concord were too “extrem” right? Forcing a tory like you to sign the Declaration of Independence would’ve given you a heart attack.

The government works for its citizenry, not the other way around. You don’t seem to get that logic, you sure you’re a conservative?

I can tell you love “fiscal hawks” in congress like John Bohner, or however you say it. What a great job he’s doing leading the battle charge against the left over such crucial issues as the debt ceiling last summer. Boy are our childrens’ futures safe with him….

“There was never any danger of the government paying its debt…”

Did you just crawl out of a rock last week? What are you doing on this site you liberal moron? Spineless RINOs, that’s Vichy Repubs, like you are a big reason Obama can rule with an iron fist. You’re no more a conservative than the Pope’s a Buddhist! You’re not a Marxist drone, I’ll give you that, you can think for yourself. But don’t you bring down the good name of the Republican party by applying it to you!

My best friend in high school served in Reagan’s honor guard, my cousin served as a special ambassador for him, and my aunt helped him get elected through the establishment Ford/Bush morons…. I can go on all day. Oh believe me, my conservative credentials would make people like you look like libtards any day of the week!

“Power to the people,” you got a red hammer & sickle banner behind you when you type on this blog?

put more words in my mouth I didn’t say in that context. Again, I’d expect that from the left.

As I’ve already explained, I voted for Fred Thompson in ’08 and Herman Cain this time around. How does that make me a Paultard?

Agreeing with the Doc on most domestic issues but outright rejecting his foreign policy automatically means I buy his whole package deal?

I’ve already said, I can’t support the guy because Neville Chamberlain already showed us what isolationism does.

No, I’m obviuosly not a college punk. I’d expect this kind of smear campaign of changing subjects and talk of “compromising” from liberals, unless that’s what you are.

There’s a reason conservative Repub economists sent a letter to Bernanke back in ’010 questioning the efficacy of QE3, and there’s a reason it’s not working now either.

Put 2 and 2 together again, maybe this time you won’t get 5.

I have studied the Great Depression. If Bernanke really had studied the time period, he would’ve known not to follow in the same big govt foot steps as Hoover, the Fed, and FDR in causing and prolonging the crisis.

The problem in 1930 and ’08 was too much regulation, not too little.

Milton wanted a computer huh? Sounds pretty cool to me.