RichH wrote:

I leave you all with the grim facts ....
Current USA average income tax is 17%
Current USA average TOTAL taxes (Income, FICA, Sales, excise, sales,
school, personal property,capital gains etc.) is approaching 48-52%
yet increasing.
Current % of USA healthcare is 16-17% of GDP.
If healthcare becomes 'universal' then that adds 17% .... +17% added
to total income taxes = 34% for a total bill of 65%-67%.
That will be fairly close to the rates of the central EU .... where
the social benefits are rapidly evaporating due to utopian
spending.
Only to leave Norway and the Scandinavians with total higher tax bill
approaching into the 90%+ range.

I say that we go back and reclaim the tea that was dumped into the
Boston harbor, apologise to the King and effect a restoration. Will
be MUCH cheaper in the long term.
Hell a tax on tea, a tax on a few legal document and to have a Brit
soldier stay in your home occasionally in retrospect of the todays
total mugging by the leftists was much better.
Bring back the king, lock down the borders, put all the leftists and
shysters in reeducation camps, remove ALL the current politicians from
office .... and simply begin all over again.


One should keep in mind that this "experiment in self government" was
just that - and experiment. No prior art.