The point isn't to change people's spending patterns; the point is to show that we *can*.
But you can't and you aren't.
A March on Washington for [insertcausehere] is a physical demonstration that a large number of people are willing to go out of their way to make a point. It's something that has to be noticed. First, because it's a large peaceful demonstration that is targeted properly, and second, because every person that went out of their way to travel to Washington is very likely willing to work on a local level to get a good sized group of folks that aren't willing to go far out of their way to go a little out of their way for this cause. A little in large numbers equals a lot.
As caleb pointed out, you might be affecting a few local merchants, but you aren't even on the radar of the government, and you aren't hurting their income.
This may work on a small scale, like state by state, but only in states that have sales tax. To my knowledge, sales tax is for the state and not the fed (except on things like tobacco and possibly liquor). For the most part, these types of protests should be product or company specific.
The point isn't to reduce the Government's income; the point is to remind the Government that we control its income.
Again, no. The federal government gets the lion's share of it's income from income tax. Unless you have a way to cause people to either not pay for income tax or reduce their income so they pay less tax, you aren't affecting the government.
Add to that, even if the fed doesn't get the money it thinks it needs for something, it'll just borrow against the future and increase the national debt. No one seems to be calling them to task for this, and there's a lot of otherwise intelligent folks that believe that the national debt isn't real debt.
If we can pay off the debt, not only will we be reducing inflation by a significant margin, strengthening the dollar and thereby our economy, and otherwise improving matters economically for everyone, we'll have hundreds of billions of dollars that we now pay for the interest on the debt for whatever programs we need.
The government needs to be reminded that they are our employees, and that we hired them to do a job. If we don't like the job they are doing, we should have the right to remove them from that job.
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Re: point taken
Date: 2005-01-25 07:14 am (UTC)But you can't and you aren't.
A March on Washington for [insertcausehere] is a physical demonstration that a large number of people are willing to go out of their way to make a point. It's something that has to be noticed. First, because it's a large peaceful demonstration that is targeted properly, and second, because every person that went out of their way to travel to Washington is very likely willing to work on a local level to get a good sized group of folks that aren't willing to go far out of their way to go a little out of their way for this cause. A little in large numbers equals a lot.
As caleb pointed out, you might be affecting a few local merchants, but you aren't even on the radar of the government, and you aren't hurting their income.
This may work on a small scale, like state by state, but only in states that have sales tax. To my knowledge, sales tax is for the state and not the fed (except on things like tobacco and possibly liquor). For the most part, these types of protests should be product or company specific.
The point isn't to reduce the Government's income; the point is to remind the Government that we control its income.
Again, no. The federal government gets the lion's share of it's income from income tax. Unless you have a way to cause people to either not pay for income tax or reduce their income so they pay less tax, you aren't affecting the government.
Add to that, even if the fed doesn't get the money it thinks it needs for something, it'll just borrow against the future and increase the national debt. No one seems to be calling them to task for this, and there's a lot of otherwise intelligent folks that believe that the national debt isn't real debt.
If we can pay off the debt, not only will we be reducing inflation by a significant margin, strengthening the dollar and thereby our economy, and otherwise improving matters economically for everyone, we'll have hundreds of billions of dollars that we now pay for the interest on the debt for whatever programs we need.
The government needs to be reminded that they are our employees, and that we hired them to do a job. If we don't like the job they are doing, we should have the right to remove them from that job.