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Topics => Politics/Legislation/Elections => Topic started by: jpatrickham on September 26, 2011, 02:19:33 PM

Title: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: jpatrickham on September 26, 2011, 02:19:33 PM
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"We have now laid out the fundamental shape of decentralized government as it ought to be.
The county should be fundamental, and people should have to deal with no government official other than their county officials, with perhaps limited exceptions for State elections, etc. This is nowhere more true than with that most hated of all ancient evils"
-- taxation.
 
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"What we have been trying to demonstrate -- based on biblical and historically Christian ideas, as well as their implementation in much of western history -- is the power that true federalism has for restoring and protecting freedom.

In theory, in a truly federal system, the National government should only govern States, State governments should only govern counties, and county governments only should govern the people (and where there are smaller units below counties, such as townships, towns, cities, etc., then the principle of federalism should extend that much further)...."


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Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: IronDioPriest on September 26, 2011, 02:44:59 PM
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...in a truly federal system, the National government should only govern States, State governments should only govern counties, and county governments only should govern the people (and where there are smaller units below counties, such as townships, towns, cities, etc., then the principle of federalism should extend that much further)...."

Would that there was a place on earth where this was being practiced. I would go there.
Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: Libertas on September 26, 2011, 02:53:29 PM
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...in a truly federal system, the National government should only govern States, State governments should only govern counties, and county governments only should govern the people (and where there are smaller units below counties, such as townships, towns, cities, etc., then the principle of federalism should extend that much further)...."

Would that there was a place on earth where this was being practiced. I would go there.

A LOT of people would go there!

A new nation "New Liberty" is born!

Count me in!
Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: jpatrickham on September 26, 2011, 03:09:24 PM
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...in a truly federal system, the National government should only govern States, State governments should only govern counties, and county governments only should govern the people (and where there are smaller units below counties, such as townships, towns, cities, etc., then the principle of federalism should extend that much further)...."

Would that there was a place on earth where this was being practiced. I would go there.

A LOT of people would go there!

A new nation "New Liberty" is born!

Count me in!



ditto! ::USA::
Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: AlanS on September 26, 2011, 05:39:40 PM
I don't think there would be room for everybody. ::grouphug::
Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: IronDioPriest on September 26, 2011, 05:59:29 PM
I don't think there would be room for everybody. ::grouphug::

They say that all the people in the whole world could fit inside a space the size of Texas.

 ::thinking::  ::stirpot::
Title: Re: County Rights: What Taxes Should Really Be (Hint: Low!) in a Free Society
Post by: LadyVirginia on September 26, 2011, 06:28:34 PM
That's where I want to be!