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dballance

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4. But the oath of offices does require
Wed Dec 5, 2012, 01:28 AM
Dec 2012

the congress people to affirm they are taking it of their free will and without any desire to evade.

Signing and agreeing with Grover is, in my opinion, a violation of their oath of office because either before or after they are sworn in as congress people they are swearing an oath to a non-constitutional entity. They are swearing an oath to not perform one of their constitutional duties which is levy taxes.

No, the constitution doesn't say taxes must be increased. But it does say it's the duty of congress people to levy taxes. Any reasonable person can see we don't have as much of a spending problem as we have a revenue problem. That means congress should follow their sworn duty to levy taxes to benefit the people.

Again, please don't forget that during the Clinton administration taxes were higher yet the economy and stock market thrived. We didn't get into a hole until W. Bush took the Clinton surplus and pissed it away on Medicare Part D (ooooh, paying for drugs for people - that sounds so socialist), tax cuts, and two unfunded, illegal wars and allowing the banks and mortgage brokers to run wild with all the crap securities they sold as AAA.

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