re: The US government has to much money.

To Easy lol

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Then please help me understand your position. FEDGOV takes our money at an outrageous rate. They overspend and create problems at great deficits and then claim they alone can fix them but it will require MORE of our money taken at outrageous rates. The problems not only get worse, but more are created. That will then require MORE of our money taken at outrageous rates.

I don’t know what this is officially called, but a good name would be the “circular-corrupt-incompetent-bullshite-theft paradox”.

Now, explain your take if you would.

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With the combination of fraud, waste, mismanagement and corruption, I think the federal government could run with 1/3 of the money currently collected if that was cleaned up.

Here is a very simple foundation of the problem you have “identified”:
1. The federal reserve prints money (creates money), in which the govt “borrows”, so whether or not the govt is collecting money through taxation, they WILL have money
2. Since we took the dollar off gold in ‘72, we can borrow money at unlimited measures, which has increased spending at rampant measures, and allowed our MIC to expand whenever we want.

The above two points are irrefutable, and not understood by the average American or poster on this board.

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But it's fun to watch how that uniqueness is making govt go ape shite crazy. The Dems are trying to sell Trump's uniquess as 'CHAOS!' Old ladies will vote to return to 'normal.' In the meantime I'm having fun watching his opponents freak out.

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I guess that's the consolation for nothing changing. For me, it's just annoying and oftentimes embarrassing. But having gone through Biden, Bush, Clinton, etc. I should be used to it by now, right?

You first have to get people out of the trap of believing that because their team has the ball that somehow makes the Federal Government trustworthy. Far too many people are willing to put aside or ignore their distrust in the Fed as soon as the bad guys don't have control. That is a fatal flaw. The Federal Government is a constant evil in this story, a tiger that never changes its stripes, and it should never be trusted or celebrated, nor should concessions be made or power be ceded to it, just because for this snapshot in time a guy you like is running the show.

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You first have to get people out of the trap of believing that because their team has the ball that somehow makes the Federal Government trustworthy

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There are more independents/non committed than Republicans or Democrats.

The problem is the current media model promotes extremism. both left and right.

Don't care, haven't the slightest clue. This isn't a concern, to be honest.

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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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We're going backwards here.

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How do we go back to the founders intent and have local and state levels performing more of the governing and limit the federal level control on governing and tax revenues. Place that money in the hands of local and state levels and there would be much more and much better oversight, I'd assume.

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Never gonna happen. Thanks Lincoln!

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"too" much money.

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Because, it's to hot (Too hot)
Two hot, baby (Too hot)
We gotta run for shelter
Gotta run for shade