TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The issues listed above exist. They receive a great amount of lip service, and nothing more. Washington D.C. was once a great city, a city every American would like to visit. For the majority of my 79 years I was proud to be a citizen of the United States of America. Everything changes. Standing still, accepting the status quo is not possible. Doing nothing is moving backwards. All of the above problems have solutions. However, all three branches of our government are playing politics. Therefore, an entire nation is being forced to accept the current situation, which literally means 340 million people are moving backwards into America’s dark past. Every one of these problems has one simple and fair solution, with the exception of Immigration Reform. This problem can only be solved through lengthy, sincere, and honest discussion and eventual compromise. Placing anyone who is not pure white in concentration camps is moronic and fascist. The remaining issues involv...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   The most f**ked up law in America is Income Tax. The Income Tax Code Book consists of 6871 pages. Few of these pages involve the average working man . Most include ways for the wealthiest Americans to avoid paying their fair share. This is the only reason why our nation is more than 30 trillion dollars in debt in 2024.   At the end of the Constitutional Convention there was no provision which required an individual to pay taxes directly to the federal government. All American citizens would pay taxes to the state in which they resided , and the states would pay taxes to the federal government.   On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law which would become the Internal Revenue Service. Today, we know this was a big mistake by our nation’s second greatest president. However, it was necessary. Confederate states were no longer paying taxes to the federal government, and fighting the First Civil War was costly, ranging from 28 millio...