Never hike taxes and pass the Taxpayer Protection Act to ban new or higher federal taxes without asking taxpayers first in a referendum.

Possibly the stupidest and most dangerous plank in this platform of stupid and dangerous planks. “I promise to hobble the government’s ability to raise revenue from now into entity.”

I really really hate this conservative focus on “the taxpayer” because (a) it completely ignores the larger numbers of citizens who don’t pay tax, and (b) reduces the relationship between government and citizen to a purely financial transaction.

How do we popularize the phrase “Taxes are the price of civilization”?