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Originally Posted by dc_dux
IL....can you explain Ron Paul's position that the income tax is unconstitutional?
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I'll explain it as I understand. An income tax means that the people work for the government when, in fact, the government works for the people. The government can't take a portion of our pay simple because it believes it can, as it doesn't 'own' anything 'we' work for.
*Shrugs*
It makes sense to me.
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His rhetoric on taxes and spending may be popular with some (2% of Repubs in latest polls), but it has no basis in Constitutional law (despite dk's "whatever...I'm right" argument).
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I wouldn't put too much stock in the 'scientific' polls, as they are done solely by land line phone. Most people-- Well, I'll just speak for myself here-- Almost use cell/internet phones exclusively. Still, just look at the internet polls. While they might not be 'scientific', they seem to indicate that the Ron Paul has garnered an absolutely
HUGE following. I hate to use Wikipedia as a source, but I'll make an exception in this case.
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Despite current national polls showing Paul to be favored by only three percent of Republican-leaning voters,[73] Paul is receiving strong support on the Internet. He continues to rank highly in online indicators such as Technorati,[74] YouTube,[75] Facebook,[76] MySpace,[77] Eventful,[78] visits to Paul's campaign website,[79] and online polls conducted by news networks.[80][81][82][83][84]
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Just go to YouTube and type in 'Ron Paul'. You get about 40K returns. That's more than any other presidential candidate by a mile. I tend to believe that people are genuinely interested in Ron Paul and, besides what the biased media has to say, I think he has a real shot at winning the GOP.
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Characterizing those who don't support him as`"morons/people who care more about lining their own pockets with money instead of the general welfare of the public" still doesn't explain how we would govern based on his position of opposing nearly all spending.
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What Ron Paul opposes is channeling billions upon billions of dollars into useless/ineffective government agencies. It's a waste of money which could be effectively put towards other endeavors-- Such as correcting the national debt (Which, in my opinion, should be of paramount importance. The US can't even finance it's own activities anymore and is relies heavily on foreign investors to buy government issued bonds. While such a strategy might have worked in the past, it doesn't seem to be working now as evidenced by the fact that you see more and more foreign investors taking more and more dollars out of their reserves-- Thus causing the dollar to lose any kind of value it has left-- And switching to more stable currencies, such as the British pound or Euro.).
Care to guess how much money is wasted on programs such as "Art Behind Bars"?