TheWiseOldFart

Fact: America is more than 30 trillion dollars in debt. Fact: When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the national treasury boasted a surplus. Fact: Failed fiscal policies, two illegal wars, wasteful personal spending, and failing to lead our nation in the fight against Covid-19 by two Republican presidents placed our nation in enormous debt. Fact: If every individual and corporation paid their fair share of taxes, America would truly be the richest nation in the world without a single dollar in debt. Most of our serious problems would disappear. American politicians have convinced our poorly informed citizens that taxes are unnecessary and should be lowered. This is one of the biggest lies in our nation’s history. No country can exist without fair and equal taxation. The United States has some of the lowest taxes in the free world. The villain in this story is an institution signed into law on July 1, 1862. It is called the “Internal Revenue Service.” This was a break with the ideas of...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I assume that if you support Trump you continue to live in 1950’s America, or you would prefer to. However, the current date shows us that we are nearly one quarter through the 21 st century, and if we haven’t moved on from our nation’s dark, warlike, and prejudiced past, we are doomed and will not survive another 25 years. Case in point: the Second Amendment should be revoked or at the very least rewritten. In its present form it remains ambiguous, and extremely difficult to place in terms which make sense in the 21 st century. What is perfectly clear is nowhere in the short and controversial amendment is there a definition of what type of weapons can be legally possessed by ordinary citizens. For example. The Supreme Court is considering whether or not “bump stocks” are protected by the Constitution. I am certainly not a Constitutional scholar. However, a simple understanding of the situation in 1789 when the Constitution was completed and signed by our Foun...