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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Say what you will, that guy is getting scads of cash and turning out huge mobs of people giving speeches about how we ought to practice "civil disobedience" by not paying income tax. I can't say I haven't felt a little teary eyed and wanted to hug someone when he gets a standing ovation for arguing that we should eviscerate the IRS and immediately end over single farm subsidy.
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I think the guy has tapped into a real wellspring of strong support, but that some of those strong supporters are loons, and that there just aren't enough of them to have a political impact. Since libertarians have been taken for granted by the GOP for a long time, it's nice to see them wake up and smell the coffee, but there aren't enough of them for it to matter that much. I'm not unsympathetic to some of what Paul says.
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I think Paul represents a really scary reality looming down the road - people are not going to pay taxes in the future. As the middle class keeps losing jobs and the parties keeping trying to soak the upper middle class for more of the tax revenue they can't get from the rich you're going to see a sort of gilded tax revolt. There are already upper middle class people in Pennsylvania refusing to pay astronomical school taxes. God knows how much worse it is in New Jersey, where the taxes are twice ours.
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I don't doubt that there are people who feel the way you do, but they are too few, poorly organized, or easily distracted by talk of terrorism and torture for it to lead to much of anything.
