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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blade Runner" data-source="post: 1362875" data-attributes="member: 17573">By the way, the answer to your question of old "Why do we even bother taxing" is partially inflation but mostly confidence that we can borrow with a straight face having revenues that are counted on (and bonds that people will buy as a result).The real point, or the problem, is that the federal government was never meant to be gargantuan and spend us into oblivion, or hook our citizens for votes (at least our noble founders didn't want to do this). Like many other things that weren't in the original constitution (voting for all, etc) they all have led to slow degradation of what was once a fine country with a backbone, and moral (christian) foundation. Of course, that is rapidly vanishing as well, not a coincidence at all.</blockquote>