The Size And Scope of Government

Originally posted by no1marauder
As regards the NSA-Verizon issue, I agree with this statement from the ACLU:

"From a civil liberties perspective, the program could hardly be any more alarming. It’s a program in which some untold number of innocent people have been put under the constant surveillance of government agents," said Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Unio ...[text shortened]... s worth saving there should be an open and public debate as to why they are justified.

At long last, we wholeheartedly agree.

Originally posted by joe beyser
The writers of the constitution.

The writers of the constitution opted to have a body of indirectly elected politicians interpret the constitution rather than internet forum contributors.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
The writers of the constitution opted to have a body of indirectly elected politicians interpret the constitution rather than internet forum contributors.

Now there's an idea for a Constitutional amendment .......................

Originally posted by joe beyser
The writers of the constitution.

They're dead.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
They're dead.

So is Pythagoras.

Originally posted by Wajoma
So is Pythagoras.

I don't ask him to solve problems involving right triangles for that very reason.

Originally posted by normbenign
Tax rates of 90% were always a joke. Nobody actually paid those rates. Who, in his right mind, would continue to work and earn if 98% were confiscated? If find it difficult to understand why people continue to fork over 50%, and the truth is that they don't even at that level they find shelters, and loopholes.

Presumably employers would be obliged to set salaries with the likely tax rates in mind. In addition, high tax rates could be a useful deterrent for anyone in a position to set his or her own salary, so employers would be more likely to plough funds back into the business, or donate them to philanthropic causes, etc.

Originally posted by Wajoma
So is Pythagoras.

So is Marx, but you would not know it.