Steven Crowder on Role of Government | Bucknell University - 2016

Steven Crowder, comedian and radio show host of Louder with Crowder, came to Bucknell University on April 20th, 2016.

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[glasstumble]

see the thing with the small government ethos is no one have ever said how they would shrink said government. What would you get rid of/ what departments would you shrink? if any.

[captainhowdy]

Now I understand why the left refuses to back a flat tax, they don't even know what it is haha.

[TwentyPercentDash]

Where can I find the full event? This is good stuff.

[jakeryan]

A flat tax WOULD work with two basic prerequisite conditions...(A) The flat tax would have to apply equally to all individuals AND corporations.  (B) The percentage (tax rate) must remain unchangeable throughout all of eternity AND the act of submitting or voting on any bill or constitutional amendment to ever increase the percentage for any reason must be legally defined as a death penalty offense which is exempt from trial and which sentence is mandated to be carried out by every citizen.  In other words, an elected representative must believe in the need for a tax increase so strongly that they must be willing to sacrifice their own life in order to even propose or support such a modification.  This extreme requirement would place the self-interest of elected representatives as a barrier to stop gradual increases in the tax rate which would eventually lead to enslavement of the citizenry.  Furthermore, this provision would have to be exempt from any modification from both the executive branch through administrative laws or executive orders...and exempt from modification by the judicial branch through any form of rulings or application of case law precedents.  In short...it would have to be a unique, unchangeable law of the Medes and Persians...once enacted, it could never be changed...by anyone...for any reason...not even a "National Emergency" or for "National Security."  It would be "off limits" and untouchable...and the very act of attempting to change it even slightly would result in the forfeiture of the life of the person attempting to change it....or the forfeiture of the lives of a hundred million if they should decide to "vote" to change it.  The one...and only...way to change it would be for every individual involved in drafting, typing, submitting, or voting on such a change to willingly sacrifice their own lives.  THAT is what would be required for a flat tax to work.  Anything short of that would just become a slippery slope into tax slavery as generation after generation of elected officials each concocted one excuse after another to nudge the tax rate up.