TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I encourage everyone to vote. I continue to read responses like, “my vote doesn’t matter,” or “why should I if my vote doesn’t count?” I understand how some voters feel. I live in a “purple state.” However, if I lived in a red state, I would have no reason to vote. Electoral votes in deep red states usually go to those calling themselves “Republicans.” I admit that when I was first allowed to vote in 1968, I knew nothing about the Electoral College. I assumed that the candidate who received the most votes would be our next president. Little did I know that the states actually choose our nation’s leader. When I did understand the truth, more than 10 years later, I was extremely upset. I had grown up in California, but what if I had been a resident of Mississippi or any other red state? THERE IS BUT ONE WAY TO DEFEAT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ELECTORAL COLLEGE First, there would be no “red or blue states” if the Electoral College did not exist. This i...

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...