“If you are not a liberal when you are 21,
you don’t have a heart”
- Winston Churchill

    There are four major candidates running for the U. S. Senate to replace retiring Senator John Breaux. Three of the four have stated they would vote against the bill proposing further tax cuts by President Bush except cuts for the middle class. One stated he would vote for the president’s bill to cut federal income taxes for all people.
   I find it interesting that the three who are against tax cuts for all taxpayers are democrats and the only one who would vote to cut taxes for all people is a republican.
   Whether this tends to confirm the fact that democrats are the tax and spend party is not for me to judge. I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
   Democrats say they want jobs but I wonder where they think jobs come from. They rail against the rich and want to tax them to death. But who then would provide jobs? The last time I checked, the poor pay no income taxes and they don’t provide jobs!
The big bad corporations that Tom Dachle and other left wing liberals in the National Democratic Party love to hate provide hundreds of millions of jobs in this country and millions world wide; while small businesses provide the rest. Except for governmental and educational jobs mostly paid for by taxpayers, all jobs come from businesses. Taxing them excessively has the effect of decreasing the number of jobs in this country not increasing them. You can’t have it both ways.
  Alan Keys, a black candidate for the U. S. Senate from Illinois provides a common sense approach. His powerful intellect allows him to present a complex problem in terms so simple even Joe Six Pack and I can understand it.
  Candidate Keys states, “In the debate over taxes, I have long been an advocate of a National Sales Tax.” That’s because the Income Tax is an unconstitutional 20th Century socialist experiment that has failed.”
   “The purpose of taxes, you see, should be simply to provide necessary revenue to the government. But the income tax system has become a tool for accumulating federal government power, violating our privacy and liberty, and stifling the power of independent American enterprise.”
   “The Income Tax makes us vassals in bondage to big government. It uses fear and coercion to take your money away, ahead of any claim of yours. It has spawned a massive federal agency with police powers, the IRS, which has access to every detail of your personal financial life. And not only that, it has birthed a swam of tax lawyers whose only purpose is to preserve the wealth of those who beat and cheat the system!”
   “Our Founders and Framers of our Constitution were wiser! They permitted only excise (sales) taxes on our people because they knew the power to tax was the power to control.”
   “My friend, there’s only one way to break the grip! Abolish the Income Tax, abolish the IRS, and put Americans back in sovereign control of fiscal policy. Basically with a National Sales Tax we could individually write ourselves a tax cut every time we decided not to buy something.”
   “Now some folks have said to me, “what about the poor?” Well, for as long as I have been advocating a National Sales Tax, I’ve also proposed a market basket of basic goods and services---the necessities of life---that would be exempt from taxation.”
   “So it’s the very households earning less than $50,000 a year who will benefit most, simply by choosing to, for example, save for a home down payment. Right now, if they try to save, their income is taxed and their savings are taxed! Under my proposal, neither is taxed!”
   “And at one stroke, we abolish the whole Byzantine machinery of tax enforcement! That one measure will shrink and take massive power away from the intrusive, unaccountable federal bureaucracy!”
   “Not only that, but government would collect revenue from criminals and others who currently evade paying any income taxes.”
   It would be nice if one of our Louisiana candidates running for the senate would come up with a simple plan instead of blindly following the dictates of Tom Dachle and the National Democratic Party’s obsession for increasing income taxes under the guise of taxing only the rich. It would be nice, but don’t bet on it.
   Who are the rich? Ask any man and wife who together make $50,000 or more how much income taxes they pay and you’ll find out it is not only the super rich who pay exorbitant income taxes.

    “If you are not a Liberal when you are 21, you don’t have a heart.
    But, if you are still a Liberal when you are 40, you don’t have a brain!”

That’s my story and I am sticking to it.

Milo A. Nickel is the former President and COO of Louisiana State Newspapers.

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