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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot
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[Found on Libernet. -Chris]
WUSSIOCRACY ON THE HILL
by L. Neil Smith
Once again those stumbling morons in the Republican Party have
blundered into a manhole, and this time they're going to pull the rest of
the country in with them.
What they solemnly promised us all last year, in their much-vaunted
"Contract with America", was a balanced budget amendment to the United
States Constitution that would necessitate drastic reductions in federal
spending - and at the same time steer well clear of increases in what each
of us is forced at metaphorical as well as literal bayonet-point to send
the government for the dubious service of curtailing our lives, liberty,
and property more and more each year. The budget should be balanced, the
Republican consensus seemed to be, but not on the taxpayers' backs.
Their means of assuring this was to have been a revolutionary
provision in the amendment requiring a "super majority" of three-fifths -
or 60% of the Congress - in order to increase taxes or create new ones.
Some joker I was talking with while the argument plodded on in the media
(a surprising lack of outraged hysteria on the part of liberals should
have given us a premonition), observed that to him, a "super majority"
means 100%.
I was inclined to agree, but willing to concede that an additional
ten percent represented significant progress - in principle if nothing
else - toward the kind of unanimous consent society (or "hyperdemocracy",
as =Time= would end up calling it) we need to become in the 21st century
if we wish to survive as a single nation. For that matter, America would
be significantly improved if it took two-thirds - or 67% - to pass =any=
kind of law at all.
I don't suppose anybody should have been surprised when the
Republican "revolutionaries" couldn't quite muster the votes at the last
minute and the revolution didn't happen. Call me a cynic, but it was
almost certainly never meant to. And the proof, should you require any,
is that, instead of simply acknowledging their failure and starting all
over again, they adopted some Democrat's bill which - the minute it
becomes clear that the budget isn't going to balance in any particular
year -- gives them AN EXCUSE THEY'LL CLAIM WE WANTED THEM TO HAVE to raise
our taxes until the budget is balanced, no matter how much doing that
costs each and every one of us, financially or in terms of civil
liberties.
In short, what we seem to have gotten instead of the balanced budget
amendment we demanded, is a "license to kill" for the Internal Revenue
Service.
There is absolutely nothing about this to be taken lightly, in
America's post-Branch Davidian era, at a time when depraved cretins in the
Democratic Party have just introduced legislation creating a "Rapid
Deployment Force" for the ever-popular Federal Bureau of Investigation -
or as they're known in these parts, "Fundamentalist Baby Incinerators".
"Let a hundred Wacos bloom" seems to be the underlying thinking (to the
extent there is any) behind a scheme like this.
If I strain your credulity, then meditate upon a friend of mine who
was informed a few years ago at a coin show -- by a pair of I.R.S. agents
- that his charmingly quaint views about the Constitution were obsolete,
and that, in today's America, the tax code takes precedence over the Bill
of Rights.
Now contemplate a time, in the not-too-distant future, when Congress
is up against it at the end of the year. Americans are hard-pressed,
already forking over half of what they earn to federal, state, and local
governments, and they're starting to get sullen about it.
"Balance the budget" the Constitution commands, "or you're breaking
the law". Not that any Congressman has ever cared about the Constitution
before this, or worried much about breaking the law. But under these
circumstances -- which is to say, given this excuse, and the precedent
currently being established for the F.B.I. - it isn't hard to envision
them creating an INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE to scour
the land in tanks, helicopters, and black nylon uniforms, whipping the
muzzles of their assault rifles, flame-throwers, and grenade launchers
this way and that, night-vision goggles aglow on the lookout for taxable
assets.
And all because the budget "must" be balanced, under this idiotic
substitute for a decent balanced budget amendment, without any safeguard
making it impossible to do that simply by raising taxes.
Damn it, I want my money back -- actually, what I want back is my
=vote=. Despite my better judgement last November, I voted for two
Republicans, and now I'm sorry I didn't just "cast a blank", since there
were no Libertarians running for those offices. I'll certainly never vote
for a Republican again. Their "revolution" -- just like their courage and
dedication to principle -- is counterfeit.
Republicans: even when they win, they're losers.
L. Neil Smith is the award-winning author of =The Probability
Broach=, =The Crystal Empire=, =Henry Martyn=, =The Lando Calrissian
Adventures=, and =Pallas=. He is an NRA Life Member and founder of
the Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus.
His e-mail address is: lneil@lever.ncdl.com
[I assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the information presented
in this or any other contribution to C-News, nor are the opinions
presented above necessarily mine. BTW, I'm looking for a position with a
conservative organization or elected official. For more information send
e-mail to clstampe@mailbox.syr.edu -Chris]
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