A visitor recently sent me this:
While I’m disgusted by the polarity of our present choices, there are items listed on your site that seem extreme to me. However, lest I judge without knowledge, I thought I would ask about your party’s platform on the following listed items:
- Abolish the income tax. Get rid of the I.R.S. No national sales tax. No flat-rate tax. No VAT. (So how would road repair etc… happen? I’m actually a Flat-tax proponent)
- Get rid of Social Security. (How would this apply to those like me, who have already paid heavily into it, for most of our lives, when we hit 65?)
- End government involvement in health care (is this to say that, we will abandon all compassion for even the legitimately poor? Shall we simply leave them to suffer?)
I don't pretend to be the one with all the answers, but here's how I personally would respond:
