It's Time for a Second Tax Revolt  Ken Hoagland  2/11/2010
4:02:54 PM - Ken Hoagland  More than 200 years ago a new idea
about the rights of individuals and the rights of government
began as a tax protest in Boston Harbor. “No taxation without
representation” was the rallying cry that led to the new concept
that all government power and authority should derive from the
consent of those governed. Is a second American tax revolt now
needed to restore that noble but increasingly tattered idea?
Somehow, these many years later a new American aristocracy is
taxing generations of future citizens, not even yet born, in
order to secure mind-numbing levels of national debt today. With
government debt now totaling more than $500,000 per household,
the voice and best interests of the average American seem lost.
We have taken a destructive national path of spending beyond our
means that retards job creation, shreds responsible fiscal
policy and undermines the pursuit of happiness itself.  The
foundation for the second Am