When government takes your money and spends it, it is destructive towards the economy. Ron Paul has introduced a bill in Congress to eliminate the IRS. The government would still be able to generate 1.2 trillion dollars a year from other sources, and that amount would equal government spending in 1990, a year in which Conservatives still considered government to be too big. What happened to those Conservatives? Is Conservatism now dead?

Dr. Paul makes another point when he tells us that for more than 100 years, the US government went about its business without the need for an income tax. The problem here has nothing to do with what government needs in order to function. The problem is the government's refusal to live within its own means, along with its desire to run America like an ant farm, which is the main reason why the dollar is going to hell in a handbasket.

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