Ron Paul Differs With Ronald Reagan in the Best of Ways During Florida Debate: Repeal the 16th Amendment!

Yesterday, we looked at the friction between Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. Reagan being the great conservative revolution leader and Newt riding on his coattails to feed his need for power. Reagan didn't care much for Newt as evident in the Reagan diaries, and Newt didn't embrace Reagan often criticizing Reagan's policies and standing with the left.

So Ron Paul was asked yesterday during the Florida debate if he would continue Reagan's tax policies and tax levels. Paul said absolutely not. Paul's answer was the right answer, while Newt's answer continues the Federal Reserve's enslavement of all Americans through the federal income tax.

Tax reform was also an issue given significant attention.

Gingrich has proposed a 15 percent flat tax, which he says will “shrink revenues to meet the size of government.” Santorum dismissed the flat-rate idea, instead proposing to lower the top taxable rate from 35 to 28 percent.

“Ronald Reagan had a 28 percent top rate. If it was good enough for Ronald Reagan, it’s good enough for me,” he said.

Paul took a position at odds with Reagan, one of the Republican Party’s untouchables.

“He taxed too much. My goal is to get rid of the 16th Amendment,” said Paul, of the amendment that allows the government to levy an income tax. “The only way you can do that is not run a welfare system and a warfare system.”