The Revolution

I enjoyed my Thanksgiving Holiday. My wife's folks have a cabin up in the Uinta Mountains, and we holed up there for about four days. I say cabin, but it's actually a really big house in the woods. Anyway, we had two or three inches of snow every night, and the kids spent most of the days sledding. When I wasn’t driving a four-wheeler, pulling the kids back up to the top of the hill for more sledding, I found time to read Ron Paul’s “The Revolution.”

I liked it! He challenged a lot of my ideas, and I do not agree with him on several issues. However, he is consistent. That’s a big deal to me. He believes things for a reason.

Here’s a “for instance.” He thinks we should abolish the income tax, and asserts that it does not need to be replaced with something else. That’s revolutionary! He says that such a move would reduce the Federal Government’s income by 40%. To return to a time when the Feds spent 40% less money than they do now, we would have to go back to … (here’s the zinger)… 1997.