Where Has Common Sense Gone?
By
Thomas Paine
INTRODUCTION
Tax day is April fifteenth. The citizens of Weatherford, Texas decided to hold a Tea Party, representative of the earlier one in Boston harbor, to protest unreasonable tax burdens. I attended that party and was struck by the number of ordinary citizens who were there. I saw no evidence of [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Holding Government to the Appropriate Standards)
No. 1
Thomas Paine – April 2009
Our Federal Government has certain important and defined functions. To support those functions it must raise revenue. All citizens understand and accept this fact. Government can and should tax income and consumption. Government should not tax anything [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Holding Government to the Appropriate Standards)
No. 2
Thomas Paine – April 2009
Essay No. 1 noted the need to eliminate all subsidies. Subsidies seldom achieve the intended objective and very often do much unintended damage to other elements of the economy. At the very least they create dependencies that [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(How Manipulating the Tax Code Promotes Bad Government)
No. 3
Thomas Paine – May 2009
Essay No. 2 shed light on an attempt to promote solar energy by once again using a rightfully popular concept to distort logic and perpetuate a tax and spend mentality which is so [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Why do bad schools get a passing grade?)
No. 4
Thomas Paine – May 2009.
The question of how good or how bad primary and secondary public schools are has been debated at some length. Despite an overwhelming preponderance of evidence supporting poor teaching and lax administrations [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Here they go again – again)
No. 5
Thomas Paine – June 2009.
Essay No. 3 talked about bad government and tax code manipulation. Specifically it discussed some aspects of the legislative give away to the coal industry at taxpayers expense as reported in the May 5, [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Getting Government Back Into the Hands of the People)
No. 6
Thomas Paine – July 2009.
Fascists to the right of us……Socialists to the left of us…… What are we to do? We seem totally surrounded by the extreme fringes of both major political parties. They each [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(Remembering the Evils of a Ruling Class)
No. 7
Thomas Paine – July 2009.
We hear a lot these days about the way the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights is being abused. We hear somewhat less about the Declaration of Independence. [...]
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WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?
(The Irrefutable Case for Term Limits)
No. 8
Thomas Paine – February 2010
The reader is encouraged to review C.S. No. 6 and C.S. No 7 before venturing into this current document.
The debate over whether or not political term limits are needed has ranged far and wide. Nearly [...]
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