Santorum drops out.

[John_James]

@No2statism

I’ve read Dr. Paul’s Restore America Now plan. Immediately, he wants to extend all tax cuts, he wants to eliminate all CG taxes, especially on gold and silver, and reduce the maximum corporate tax rate to 15%.

Hmmm. All things the FairTax would do.

In the long term, he wants repeal of the 16th Amendment while replacing it nothing. I assume that means he wants to go back to low tariffs.

And Rand Paul doesn’t? Please provide the proof of this.

2nd part, I do have a practical plan: I’ve said for a long time that a confederal tax system is the least painful tax system and that the Federal government should not directly collect from people, but rather from the States (or even counties) based upon their population. The Federal government should be stripped of all power to tax people directly.

This is called “capitation tax”. Robert Wenzel of EPJ (eventually) ended up endorsing this when Peter Schiff pressed him multiple times to offer something better than a sales tax on his radio show. We discussed this in the Cain 9-9-9 plan thread (mostly starting about here). You can read there to learn more about it, but somehow I get the feeling you may have actually seen this discussion or heard Wenzel yourself because you sound just like him.

When he’s initially asked for a tax plan, he gives the non-answer “I want taxes as low as possible”/“whatever brings in the least revenue”/“as close to zero as possible”, etc. Just like you did. He gives that non-answer multiple times until Schiff basically pins him down and makes him offer an actual answer…and Wenzel coughs up the capitation idea.

For anyone interested, that thread offers plenty of discussion on this bad idea.

As for the national debt, it should be distributed to the States based upon how many electoral votes they have. It would then be up to each State whether to repudiate its share or pay off its share.

So the Federal government runs up this tab, that’s mathematically impossible to pay off, and your suggestion is to just dump it off on the states. Okie dokie.

The national parks system, other national lands, and the DoD’s weapons should be sold off so entrepreneurs can invest in that land and so that the Federal government doesn’t have to tax to run them. Then that money could go towards getting us back on a monometallic standard (gold or silver without nationalist coinage policy) and the subtreasury system.

Would it not be much simpler to just allow competing currencies? Why go back to the same standard that was so easily abandoned the first time?