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Originally Posted by oilyfan 
American power is on the decline because the American people refuse to take responsibility for their financial misconduct, and now the only tool left in their collective arsenal (taxation) is being systematically dismantled.
I largely agree with what you are saying except the American people refuse to take responsibility. The majority of people polled in the US favoured tax increases but it's the political process and the corruption thereof that seems to be preventing the increases from happening at the moment.
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It isn't that they refuse to take responsibility or refuse to be taxed more. It is that they see so much government waste and corruption the feeling is why feed the machine more? Why not just fix the machine? The answer to the problems is not throwing more money down the same hole but to fix the problem.