Lindsey Graham can scream all he wants about being a small government conservative, but he is a Marxist, plain and simple. California can operate a single-payer system if it wants to, Graham went on, but South Carolina wants none of it. Courtesy of the progressive federal income tax, those economically powerful blue states that Graham looks forward to plundering produce a disproportionate share of federal income tax revenues. Lindsey Graham might call that small government conservatism, but a more honest conservative might call it straight out theft. Southern Democrats, along with western populists, were behind the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which created the federal income tax.

Source: Huffington Post September 21, 2017 21:45 UTC