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Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
David Harsanyi
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It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
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I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
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It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
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You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.
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Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
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Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
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Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
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Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
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As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
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