Erik Prince

But then they changed it to be direct election.

So now you're voting from Tennessee to send your senator on.

The problem with that is it allows money from not Tennessee but from everywhere to flood into Tennessee's election to affect how that senator is elected instead of that senator that goes to represent Tennessee be beholden to Tennessee's interests and the state legislature who elected him telling him what to do.

It was a brilliant move by the founding fathers, terrible move by the progressives, the super leftists in the Woodrow Wilson era to change that.

And it allowed greater concentration of federal power.

Again, when they passed that, when they passed the income tax, because before that, it used to be that the federal government was run solely off of tariffs.

Every imported good would get nicked with a 15% tariff.

It gives a certain amount of protection to domestic industry, but not unreasonable.

And that was it.

And it capped the size of government because you're never going to grow that tax base that much more.

So you've had a massive concentration of federal power.

civil service protections, so you have a bureaucracy that's been growing steadily.

At the same time, a fiat currency that Congress can just print an unlimited amount of.

Budget deficit, an extra trillion dollars, so what?

We spend an extra trillion dollars.

That's their mentality, which has allowed the worst aspects of federal bureaucracy and idiocy to now be funded with unlimited...

really unlimited money you see that in the wars that have been funded 20-year war in afghanistan total fail because there was never a guns or butter decision that someone politician had to make are we going to fund health care or roads are we going to fund a failed war in afghanistan no one had to make that adult decision so again this gets solved by the power of the purse in demanding

that are elected legislators spend less money.

You're sick of government?

You want less government?