Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "Lawrence on why Biden was the big winner in New Hampshire" video.
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@paullowell3342 I have an education in law. And this is the principle distinction you need to grasp:
"Justice and the Rule of Law are to be ABOVE politics." -- john Adams.
The essence of democracy is ELECTIONS. And the US Constitution expressly stipulates that there SHALL be ELECTIONS.
The United States is a representative democracy in which representatives, including the president, are democratically elected.
Further: legislative process is democracy in action: debate, negotiation, consensus of the majority.
As to taxation:
These are the first three, and fifth, bills enacted by the first Congress:
June 1, 1789. "An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths." That is, oaths of office.
July 4, 1789. "An act for laying a duty on goods, wares, and merchandises imported into the United States." TAXATION.
July 20, 1789. "An act laying duties on tonnage." TAXATION.
. . . .July 31, 1789. "An act to regulate the collection of duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise." TAXATION.
There were also various state and local taxes raised for state and local domestic purposes.
You are not taxed to death; you simply believe you have the freedom to leech on the community while contributing nothing to it.
Taxation funds gov't, and gov't services to "We the people," as required and authorized through democratically-elected representatives by "We the people".
As other forms of taxation were seen to be needed, the Constitution was amended by the democratic approval of "We the people".
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@driftingwolf0 "I always find it funny that you all just blindly accept Biden or Trump without question".
Mature adults do not accept ANYTHING without question. Nor do we demand fulfillment of the baseless fantasy that reality be perfect.
Nor do we REJECT reality and the limitations imposed by the implacabilities of political circumstance and RESPONSIBILITY.
The FACT is that Sanders and Trump were equally opposite EXTREMES, BOTH of whom alienate that majority -- which is MODERATE -- by INSULTING basic human intelligence, and projecting their respective corruptions onto those who are FOR RULE OF LAW and democracy. But tell us, maif: why is that the two pro-Russian dudes who supported the successful election of the pro-Russian ukrainian candidate for president ended up, respectively, running Trump's and Sander's campaign? And why that Ukranian election included hacked and stolen emails, and BOTH Sander's and Trump's 2016 campaigns included hacked and stolen emails?
You are the usual Trumper: arrogant in your ignorance of law, history, and the responsibility of adhering to fact and truth. You want everyone to support alternatives that DO NOT EXIST based on your political ignorance about what is. You don't accept democracy, you want Trump's s brand of fascism under the delusion that YOU would be exempt from the DEMOLITION of rule of law and your RIGHTS. Trump has you uneducated twits suckered, and you're too stupid to know it.
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