The Little Brown Reader

The late great United States of America

The late great United States of America
by Roderick T. Beaman

I've been saying for a while that this country is doomed. But I have felt that it would last until around 2020. Recent events have forced me to move that timetable up. This country will come apart by 2010. The recent case of The United States of America vs. Vernice Kuglin has caused my reassessment.

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Hmmm...if one court case can cause Roderick to move up his U.S.A. doomsday scenario by 10 years just like that, I'm wondering a little about the stability of his new prediction.

That said, he may be right that the case he mentions will lead to some unraveling of things on the federal level. There's a huge movement in this country around the idea that there is no law that requires most Americans to pay income tax (as well as a sub-movement around the idea that the 16th Amendment was never actually ratified)...if that movement ends up proving its remarkable theory, and the courts accept it -- well, it might not make the country "come apart", as Roderick "Doomsayer" Beaman puts it, but it will surely shake things up.

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