What’s even more troubling to me is the fact that the tax increases being sought by President Obama will be used to do exactly as you have warned. He will pay off the unions by creating more government jobs, instead of jobs that would actually benefit our country.

and they were benign and righteous over the next century. the lion’s share coming from ‘tarrifs’, and the balance in ‘excise’ taxes for alchohol and tobacco. the states kept their ledgers balanced through ‘property’ taxes and redundent excise, alchohol and tobacco. everyone was blissed out except the importers/exporters and the
indulgent. this period in our history i think of as our ‘camelot’ days with regard to taxation and i thank you again
mr. jackson for your patience; but i felt i had to provide a contrasting back-ground to our current situation.

here’s where my comment becomes germaine to the topic:
prior to 1913 and the passage of the 16th amendment; ‘direct taxation’ of the people was an experiment of the late 1900′s yeilding little federal revenue; but mr. wilson’s administration put the 16th on steroids. what began as 1% to 7% under the amendment jumped to 67% at the top in 1917. today’s progressives would wet their pants if they could re-create that scenario.

today mr. obama officially declared ‘war’ on the top earners. he advocates a ‘marginal’ increase on their income;
he doesn’t specify the percentage, it doesn’t matter. any ‘tax’ increase is a soporific to his base. there is also no guarantee that the increased revenue will be used to ‘pay down’ our debt. there is every indication that any increased funding will provide this administration the means to initiate the ‘temporary’ hiring of more union employees and thus augment his re-election support. and his speech plays to the populist feeling that the ‘rich’
have more and so they should give something back. ‘they already do’. i’m not referring to the hedge fund kings or the off-shore companies that dis-placed american workers; they need to be held to task, but we can’t begin to right the wrongs on our economy ’till we address our productivity. we used to ‘make things’ that we needed and the rest world wanted. some folks say it’s a different time and we live in a ‘global’ economy. yeah it is, but people all over
the world still want ‘stuff’. so let’s give the world ‘american’ products at a competitive cost. allow the off-shore companies a real incentive to bring their factories and hiring back home. that would increase the federal tax revenue and cut our un-employment by half. raising ‘direct taxation’ is historically a last resort and i see no need
for that now; unless we are no longer free within the bounds of our ’1776 declaration’ to determine our individual right to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…b