Posted on 09/13/2017 8:52:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
The seeds of the modern bureaucratic or administrative state go back to the Progressive Era of American history in the early 20th century. But progressive regulation morphed into the hyper-control of our present federal government during the New Deal. Modern students, whose history education has been directed by teachers who “accept” the reality of a federal leviathan, are often unaware of the fact that before 1916 there was no income tax in the United States, and that federal revenues were primarily through import duties. The income tax was justified by the need to support the ever-expanding regulatory environment being promoted by Democrats, with a small amount of crossover by Republicans.
Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats were far more drawn to the big government idea and ideal than their Republican confreres. Under Wilson, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was replaced with the more powerful antitrust tool, the Clayton Antitrust Act. The Federal Reserve came into being under Wilson. Further, the 16th Amendment allowing a federal income tax was enacted in 1916, although the move to establish that institution had begun before Wilson took office, having been passed by Congress in 1909. More importantly, under Wilson, the U.S. became involved in World War I, and in the prosecution of that war, various federal governmental controls over industry were enacted in order to promote the war effort, not the least of which was the War Industries Board under Bernard Baruch.
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If you fund it, they will come.
Simple. The free market economy requires less government. But the Left LOVES big government tyranny. They LIVE for that.
Not rocket science. Common sense.
They are opposed to pretty much all freedoms.
Except for the freedoms to lie, cheat, graft corrupt, and create “students” with little or no ability to do anything except to eat, take a cr*p, and become a politician or lib arts faculty member.
Go back to tariffs and get rid of the income tax. Our founders knew what they were doing. Don’t question that.
I agree, but they will never get rid of the income tax .
Bump to the Top
Because Libs think that they are so smart and morally superior that they should rule over other people’s lives.
The Leftist Progressive movement has been going for over 100 years, and not just in the US. They’ve already destroyed many nations, and claimed millions of lives. Venezuela is simply the most recent collapse. They want power, and they will say and do anything, including destroying the nation, to get it.
“Opposition to economic freedom”, in a nut shell, is a term to remember and campaign on, in 2020, for Trump.
The term encapsulates the Democrat’s Stalinist play book and necessary capture of black Americans necessary to whip up identity politics in all minorities, to include Labor.
They oppose freedom in general.
Anyone who can’t understand the Democrats plan is stupid enough to become mere serfs. Even the most simple economic student understands it is impossible to subdue financially stable people but ones dependent on welfare are easy for the government to control
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