Career politicians use ‘remote-control government’ to accomplish taxation without representation. What can you do about it? Read or listen to Scott Ott’s column, and watch his companion episode of Trifecta, a news opinion show on PJTV. Scott also spoke to Lehigh University students on this topic recently.
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Overcoming ‘Remote-Control’ Government
The elaborate shell game local politicians play with our money is the biggest threat to our freedom.
by Scott Ott for PajamasMedia.com
There’s a shell game in government that makes it nearly impossible for you and I to stop the runaway spending. Worse, it’s designed to get you to focus on a seemingly insoluble problem far away, while the real solution lies just down the street, practically in your own backyard.
Let me use the concrete example of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, to show how this masterful diversion plays out….and what you can do about it. [READ THE REST]
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16 responses so far ↓
1 boberinyetagain // Sep 8, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Oh dear, you really are fearless…best of luck to you. I fear you'll need more than luck though!
2 boberinyetagain // Sep 8, 2009 at 2:49 pm
"They" truly are likely coming to get you!…and now me too I suppose. Bring 'em on!
3 ChileSerrano // Sep 8, 2009 at 3:06 pm
"All politics is local." ~ Thomas P. ('Tip') O'Neill, 55th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
4 boberinyetagain // Sep 8, 2009 at 3:09 pm
And completely corrupt
5 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 8, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Ah yes, but it is the necessary means to redistribute the wealth!
6 candle451 // Sep 8, 2009 at 6:48 pm
The so-called “runaway spending” is going to save this country, if not the world. I’ve done extensive documentation on my blog of the horrors of capitalism, and I can tell you that until all our money is made worthless (by our spending), capitalism’s grip on our society will remain strong.
7 ChileSerrano // Sep 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
This quotation comes from the words of Daniel Webster and those of John Marshall in the Supreme Court case, McCulloch v. Maryland.
Webster, in arguing the case, said: “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy … ” 17 U.S. 327 (1819).
In his decision, Chief Justice Marshall said: “That the power of taxing it [the bank] by the States may be exercised so as to destroy it, is too obvious to be denied” (p. 427), and “That the power to tax involves the power to destroy … [is] not to be denied” (p. 431).
8 onlineanalyst // Sep 8, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Here is the latest meme: "Reading the bill is counterproductive":
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/08/new-meme-re...
If a bill is too lengthy and convoluted to be read and understood, then maybe is should be sent to a circular file.
9 Hawkeye_R // Sep 8, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Great piece, Scott… and good advice. I will consider checking into things here, but it's New Jersey, so we already that corruption abounds!
10 onlineanalyst // Sep 8, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Though it may not appear to relate ostensibley, Jeffrey Lord's article that asks if we've had enough, makes some sound points about fiscal responsibility at the federal level that applies from the bottom up: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/08/had-enou...
11 onlineanalyst // Sep 8, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Though it may not appear to relate ostensibley, Jeffrey Lord's article that asks if we've had enough, makes some sound points about fiscal responsibility at the federal level that applies from the bottom up: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/08/had-enou...
12 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Having been on government vendor lists from time to time I might be biased, Scott, but in my experience with government units across the country most such spending sprees don't involve the vendors until an <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=define%3Arfp&btnG=Google+Search">RFP or <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Arfq&btnG=Search">RFQ has been drawn up in one of those proverbial smoke-filled rooms.
The problem could largely be stemmed if the U.S. adopted the <a href="http://www.fairtax.org>Fair Tax.
13 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Having been on government vendor lists from time to time I might be biased, Scott, but in my experience with government units across the country most such spending sprees don't involve the vendors until an <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=define%3Arfp&btnG=Google+Search">RFP or <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Arfq&btnG=Search">RFQ has been drawn up in one of those proverbial smoke-filled rooms.
The problem could largely be stemmed if the U.S. adopted the <a href="http://www.fairtax.org">Fair Tax.
14 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Having been on government vendor lists from time to time I might be biased, Scott, but in my experience with government units across the country most such spending sprees don't involve the vendors until an RFP (Request for Proposal) or RFQ (Request for Quote) has been drawn up in one of those proverbial smoke-filled rooms.
The problem could largely be stemmed if the U.S. adopted the Fair Tax (http://www.fairtax.org)
15 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Having been on government vendor lists from time to time I might be biased, Scott, but in my experience with government units across the country most such spending sprees don't involve the vendors until an RFP (Request for Proposal) or RFQ (Request for Quote) has been drawn up in one of those proverbial smoke-filled rooms.
The problem could largely be stemmed if the U.S. adopted the Fair Tax. (http://www.fairtax.org)
16 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Having been on government vendor lists from time to time I might be biased, Scott, but in my experience with government units across the country most such spending sprees don't involve the vendors until an RFP (Request for Proposal) or RFQ (Request for Quote) has been drawn up in one of those proverbial smoke-filled rooms.
The problem could largely be stemmed if the U.S. adopted the Fair Tax. (http://www.fairtax.org)
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