Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I’ve had in-person discussions with certain people (you know who you are) who rolled their eyes at me when I said that, if you give the government an inch, they’ll take a mile.

Well, I’d like to point out to you that, this past Tuesday, a tax on long distance telephone calls originally established to pay for the Spanish-American War (1898, President William McKinley, U.S.S. Maine, Teddy Roovevelt’s charge up San Juan hill, etc.) was ended. One-hundred eight years later. To pay for a war that lasted months. In 1898. Point made.

Next on my personal government to-do list: The repeal of the 16th amendment.