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Originally Posted by Senior Chief The reason for that is that I don't disagree. The founding fathers never intended for people to live in the political arena and spend the tax dollars the government is collecting. Those guys make more money than many of their constituents added together. |
IF our forefathers were around, they would be in the progress of rousing the Minutemen to march on Washington DC. One of their battle cries would be
"NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION". The 1764 Sugar Act (Revenue Act) & the 1765 Stamp Act which imposed direct sales tax in colonies, was enough to begin the march to independence. They would
NOT recognise the government that has formed since those early days in 1776 (along with all of the taxes that go with our form of government) ... as a matter of fact, they could never have envisioned the nation spanning octopus that the US government has become.
As far as 'professional' politicians, they wouldn't even know what you were talking about. As Donkey said, our early politicians were "scientists, farmers, engineers, shopkeepers, and so on" ... otherwise, they were men of leisure, that volunteered to carry out the 'limited' exercise of government.
That isn't what we have today ... and I agree, there should be a term limit (six years is too short and more than twelve years is too much).
*Edit* for misspelled words in quote (sorry).