Lyle,

I don't think that the federal government should be involved in schools at all. Each state is responsible for that on their own, and I personally don't support public schools. That would be a different topic, but I believe that most of the 14years in public school is wasted teaching things that don't matter. Again it's a completely different topic so I will leave it alone.

The military is what the Federal government should be involved in. The taxes can come from many other ways than income tax. We are taxed on everything we do anyway. Buy, sell, invest, live, eat, gas, you name it. There is a tax on it. If you look at the percentage of every dollar you spend, over half of it is on interest and taxes.

I think we are way passed the point of just a little reform. We need a complete overhaul.

I don't think the founding fathers were correct in every detail, like the voting issues, but I do think they were correct in the form. Adhering to the constitution prevents tyranny. Our current form is closer to tyranny than it is to the constitutional republic.

I also think the wrong side won in the civil war. I believe that the southern states had every right to succeed from the union. They were forced back in and the entire country became slaves to the federal government. We are taught a flowery story of good vs evil that the north just wanted to free the black people from slavery. It is far from the truth. The issues were about money, freeing black people was an extra benefit and a strategic consideration. Not what the war was all about. I also believe that any law or policy not keeping with the basic principle that "ALL men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights" should be overturned. If that principle is exercised then we wouldn't have to worry about voting issues and other racial and sexist policies. By the way the context of "men" is mankind, including women. Just my views.