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Originally Posted by charlie g
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.
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The mistake is thinking that the UN is there only for "making peace". It is a conduit, a chance for everyone (including banana republic leaders and tin pot dictators) to say their piece and mouth off at each other. The theory is that as long as they are talking (even yelling) they aren't shooting at each other.
Killing off the UN without coming up with a suitable replacement would be the first step to a true world war 3.
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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. <SNIP> Also, the rich would finally start actually paying taxes(think of that).
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Again, think this through to the end. You would get rid of the IRS and then what? You would replace it with something, because otherwise there would be no way to collect your flat tax or your consumption tax and nobody to check compliance, and nobody to audit the number of people living in the houses, and nobody to check to make sure the sales tax is collected. So you end up creating the TRS (Tax Revenue Service) and they end up just as big as the bloated mess is now.
You can rename your dog "fluffy the cat" but it is still a dog.
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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
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That would be Mr Paul's own party doing that. Last time I checked, the Boy president was handed a declining deficit, a free sailing economy, high employment, and a highly regarded currency with super high values. 7 years later, the US is locked into a major unpopular war, scared of it's own shadow, and spending nearly a trillion dollars to fight a war that isn't needed. Worse yet, because the US dollar is dropping like a rock, the value of crude oil is going up faster than it would have been if Iraq had been left alone.
Getting rid of the UN and making it "protect ourselves" will lead the US to even large military expenditures because it is likely more and more wars and skirmished would break out, and the US would get sucked in. The problems don't have to do with the UN or an ineffecient tax collection service, but has everything to do with American Imperialism and desire to shove democracy down everyone's throat, like it or not. It's expensive work, and the bill is coming due.
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. Ron Paul may not be tha answer anyone is looking for.... BUT HE AINT PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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last time I checked, Ron Paul was an elected official. He is exactly part of the problem.