Greg Gutfeld opened the June 6th broadcast of The Five by talking about the IRS scandal and asking "What can we do as Americans right now? This seems like a golden opportunity to go after a bloated bureaucracy, clean it out and create something."
The answer is to spark a national protest demanding limited government by doing 3 things:
First, unhide our taxes.
Even the 47% who don't pay federal income tax pay taxes. During the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney said "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president, no matter what..." and "These are people who pay no income tax." Obama's media machine, including Stephen Colbert, immediately exploited the opportunity to further brand Romney as a typical out-of-touch rich guy. Romney defended his remarks as inelegant, but should have followed the advice of his father to be bold. Rather than dismissing them as a given megagroup voting bloc for the other side, why not recruit them?
People are unaware of how enormous the average person's total tax burden is because it's either hidden or dispersed across a wide spectrum of goods and services. Fair Tax advocates speak about hidden (embedded) taxes in mind-numbing detail, putting everyone to sleep. Keep people awake by making it simple. Arnold Schwarzenegger's short and memorable 2003 rant helped him win California's governorship: "From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they are taxed. When they go get a coffee, they are taxed. When they get in their car, they are taxed. When they go to the gas station they are taxed. When they go to lunch, they are taxed. This goes on all day long. Tax. Tax. Tax. Tax. Tax."
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