How can anyone know what amount of taxes is fair? Well, right now our tax burden is up to about 60% of our income. Is that the fair amount or is 10% or should the government just take it all and redistribute it like some other countries do.

I thought about this and then went to the greatest source of information that I could find--just as our founding fathers did many times. God had a set apart people through whom to send his son into the world. He wanted them to do everything right, so he even set up their government and religion.

He also told them how much of their INCOME to give to their government and religion so they would be adequately supported to do their jobs. Ten % went to their religion and altogether another 23 and 1/3% went to run the government. So, I thought why wouldn't we be able to run our religious and non-profit organizations on 10% for donations, and since the American people are the most giving people on earth, we can count on that figure being even higher. So, that leaves 23% to be divided up among the different government agencies. How do we do that?

Well, we have the federal government, state government, county government, city or town government, and then we have the supplement to the working man's retirement, social security. That's five agencies. Twenty-three divided by 5 gives us 4.6% for each one.

Since all politics are local, the closer to the people we get, the better. So, we need the tax dollars divided up so they can be used as locally as possible . The state should collect the 4.6% for the county, and the 4.6% for the cities, and then send the counties and cities their parts.

By doing this, the state can decide for what the state is responsible and then the counties and cities will have their own money to decide what they need and then they will automatically have home rule.

The Federal Government can then do what the Constitution says the Federal Government should do and leave the rest up to the states and the people.