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          THE NATIONAL TAX REVOLT  - CHAPTER ONE

          NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE
          AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

          Do you remember this sentence from High School?
          It was written by an anymous typist who merely
          wanted to devise a clever sentence for the beginning
          typing student.  But the words were significant and
          they are in excellent call to every patriotic
          American citizen who loves their country and who
          also believes that THIS IS THE TIME FOR A BIG CHANGE
          in the way we govern ourselves.

          EVEN PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON has recently stated that
          he wants us to "RE-INVENT OUR GOVERNMENT."  These
          are historic words and they are the most important
          words ever uttered by an American President since
          George Washington uttered similar words over 200
          years ago.  Since that time the world has changed
          enormously.  Presidents, Senators, Congressmen were
          used to travel to Washington on horseback or in
          horse-drawn wagons.  A small portion of their journey
          might have been made in a boat, drawn by "asses" or
          mules or even in a wagon drawn by mules or "asses".
          Today, things have reversed themselves and it is the
          'asses' who travel to Washington propelled into office
          by people donating money to their 'assinine' campaigns.
          But no matter what you call them, the people we send to
          Washington are merely messengers bringing the supposed
          'Will of the People' to a central meeting place where
          they can turn this will of their constituents into law.

          Unfortunately, there is much to go wrong before this
          theoretically democratic government can transform the
          will of the ordinary voting public into public law.
          Lobbyists are the number one enemy of good law.  Case
          in point, the gun lobbyists, the oil lobbyists, the
          Drug lobbyists.  It is obvious to most thinking people
          that we should have tougher regulations regarding the
          purchase of a hand-gun and yet, the gun lobbyists
          stifle all laws regulating these purchases and as
          a result thousands of innocent people die every day
          in our cities.  It is obvious to most thinking and
          voting people that there should be millions of electric
          powered vehicles on the road today, more mass transit,
          several viable alternatives to the gasoline powered
          vehicles we are all forced to drive, and yet the oil
          lobbyists prevent any legislation that might cost the
          oil industry a few bucks.

          It is obvious to most thinking people that we should
          have cleaner air, quieter streets, safer streets,
          drug free cities.

          But these lobbyist, or 'LEGALIZED BRIBERY EXPERTS'
          as I like to call them, prevent any real good laws
          from being passed.  As a consequence, the 'Will of
          the People' is no longer the driving force in American
          Government.

          President Clinton knows this and he also knows about
          the terrible waste, fraud and abuse in our government.
          But even the President of the United States is
          powerless to make any real changes unless the people
          of the United States are behind him in very real and
          effective ways of being counted.  We have written
          this publication to give you, the American People,
          the most effective way to show your support for Real
          Change in American Government.  We have put together
          a Poltical Action Kit that everyone can use to make
          it crystal clear to all Washington politicians that
          a Real Change is underway and that they'd better
          stand clear and stay out of the way of the changes
          we want to make now and for all future generations
          of Americans still to come.

          We don't want just cosmetic changes, however,
          because we've had cosmetic changes for decades and
          they've done no good.  We don't even want a change
          in the people who represent us because one set of
          burglars is indistinguishable from any other set
          of burglars.  Either one will steal from you.
          The end result of either party in office is always
          the same, more decay in the cities, more injustice,
          less freedom, a worsening economy.  We can't put up
          with these worsening American conditions any longer
          or we will soon be thrust into the same terrible
          situation as any other third world nation.  The
          burglars in Washington have already turned this
          greatest of nations into the world's largest debtor
          nation.  India has a fraction of the debt we now
          have.

          In fact, the combined debt of all the nations of
          the world are about one percent the debt burden
          of the United States!  This is intolerable and
          it is insupportable by future generations of
          Americans because already the National debt
          requires that every man, woman and child living
          today would have to pay the government over $50,000
          to the treasury in order to pay it off.  AND IT
          GETS WORSE each second.

          Despite recent Congressional approval of another
          debt-reduction plan, the National Budget Deficit
          still continues to grow at an uncontrollable rate.
          The only thing the burglars did in Washington,
          after years of debate and hard work, was to REDUCE
          THE RATE AT WHICH IT WILL GROW.  They cut nothing!
          They did nothing to reduce the deficit. They met
          yet another crisis head-on and once again shirked
          their responsibility.  They knew, then and they
          know now that the only answer is a 'Cap' on
          spending.  They know that's the only way to reduce
          the deficit and yet they refuse to do it.  They
          know that the only way to bring down a deficit in
          a household budget is to reduce spending to a
          level under the income.  They know that and yet
          they refused to do exactly that.  Yet, they came
          out with so many speeches about what a great job
          they did.  Yet, they did nothing except to curb
          their projected increases in spending a tiny bit!

          Not enough to lower the burden of your children
          and mine and their children who will have to work
          until November OR December of every year just to
          pay off the tremendous Deficit left by the Reagan,
          Bush, and now the Clinton Administration.

          Surely, it is clear to all thinking and voting
          American people that something far more drastic
          has to be done to get this country back in control
          of common sense!  But wasting your vote on one
          burglar or another will always result in the same
          thing, burglary.  And that is exactly what they
          are doing to each one of us.  They are
          systematically and with malice aforethought,
          robbing the Treasury of every dime they can get
          their hands on.

          The recent 'Check cashing scheme'
          in Washington is proof of their real passion
          & greed for money.  They don't have time to pay
          attention to the real wishes of the citizenry
          because they spend so much of it at social
          events and fund-raisers and at parties, trying
          to raise enough money for their next campaign.

          So, GOVERNMENT REALLY NEEDS YOUR HELP.  Any honest
          politician will admit that, and what better way
          to help them make up their minds, than by telling
          them your own mind?  There is no better way.

          They are supposed to represent the will of the
          majority of people.  Surely the majority of American
          tax-payers would like their taxes to be reduced or
          eliminated entirely.  If only they could be assured
          that their government would have adequate funds to
          continue to do something to benefit society.

          THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS PETITION WILL DO.

          Please print it and sign it and send it in today!


          It will take the active participation of millions
          of citizens to re-invent the government in any
          meaningful way.  In truth, Bill Clinton is pleading
          with us all to join him in making for some real
          changes and the only real changes that will do us
          any good is a change that will give the Average
          American Taxpayer more power, more say, over where
          his/her money is going.  This is the ONLY REAL
          CHANGE THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

          By taking away their credit card, us, we force them
          to live within their means.  Government spending will
          have to be cut significantly.  The manner in which
          they make these cuts can be altered and controlled
          by more of us signing more of these petitions.

          What we need is MORE PARTICIPATION BY THE PEOPLE,
          not less!  Please remember that, no matter what
          arguments they use to dissuade us.  We can never
          be hurt through more participation, only by less
          participation are we hurt as a nation.

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