>The above statement is why I thought it was a troll. You
>might want to google Orson Well's. And maybe George Orwell
>for that matter.

Whoops. Well, its been a good ten years since I read 1984, my bad.

>Anyway, while there's a grain of truth in pretty much
>everything you say, I think you're making it out to be far,
>far worse than things truly are. There's room for
>improvement, and I don't care for the road we've been heading
>down for the past few years, but this seems a slight
>overreaction. Vote.

My lifespan will likely extend another 40-60 years and my childrens quite longer than that. I'd prefer not to be myopic. People would've labeled you a paranoid nut if you'd suggest that the average person would be giving in the ballpark of 20-30% of their income to income tax at the time it was ammended to the Constitution. Were that in their minds, it likely wouldn't have passed. I'd prefer to take a long term stance rather than focus on the last 10 years. Sadly, some things really do amount to a slippery slope, only by the time its blatantly obvious too much time has passed.