I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.
[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news