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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Charlie, you are mistaking someone saying "your all wrong" with someone who has an answer. Getting rid of the UN, the IRS, support to foreign countries, and all of that is easy to say, it is easy to say "we will save billions of dollars every year and get the government out of your life", but what is it replaced with?
Ron Paul is suggesting nothing short of a worldwide power vacuum that would be rapidly filled with radical muslims and many other less than savory groups.
Ron Paul isn't a man with answers, he is a man who didn't even truly understand the questions.
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I respect your opinion Alex. I think some of those questions are based upon flawed logic and a skewed perspective. The UN has done very little in the effort to spread peace-IMO. What it has done is put the US in a no win position and wedged our interests against our allies in many situations. We are damned if we do and damned if we don't. Either we are doing too much or not enough and the US is wrong and evil. Much of the blame for 9-11 was was leveled against our meddling in ME affairs. I don't think we should pull out of the UN altogether, but I don't think our national sovereignty should ever be comprimised to people whom want us to fail.
The IRS could go away tomorrow and the country would be so much better off. Especially the middle class who actually bear the brunt of most taxation. There is no reason in the world a flat tax or consumption tax wouldn't work. The IRS is nothing more than a social engineering platform devised by politicians to control the masses beahiour. Take the time to read about how the IRS can come in and take everything people have worked for and they dont have to prove a thing. Look at the federal conviction rates and tell me if you can fight our government. The government would still need a collection oversight arm to make sure there was compliance with the tax, but it would be clear to everyone what was owed and why. Also, the rich would finally start actually paying taxes(think of that).
There is about to be a power vacuum anyway. The US can not continue to spend the way we have. The way we are headed, our currency will be better suited for wallpaper and we will be powerless. There are no fiscal controls by these clowns we currently have and no desire to stop WASTING money,
And yes, R.Paul might not be the man with the answers. But I believe he understands the questions much better than most. The path our nation is heading leads to disaster. You can only spend more than you take in for so long. You can only meddle in other countries business for so long. You can only bullshit your people for so long. The day is coming when the collective "we" are going to have to look in the mirror and see the truth. Ron Paul may not be tha answer anyone is looking for.... BUT HE AINT PART OF THE PROBLEM.