[Clemenza]

Nevertheless, it was the SOUTH-RON politicians who pushed for the income tax as a way to redistribute wealth from the industrial wealthy north to what was then a poor, rural south. For a long time it was "What New York makes, Alabama takes." Since our pols up here were not smart enough to get the pork that southerners traditionally enjoyed, the resorted to taxing the hell out of New York residents at the state and local level.

[from occupied ga]

Nevertheless, it was the SOUTH-RON politicians who pushed for the income tax as a way to redistribute wealth from the industrial wealthy north to

Politicians are the same all over. 98% of them believe that what you earn is theirs to spend, and that you are lucky and should be eternally grateful that they don't take it all as is their right. There are a few who believe that the purpose of government is to protect your property, but damned few. The only really good one in the whole Kongress is Ron Paul for TX. Look how the governor of TN practically had a tantrum when the legislature wouldn't enact an income tax, and the Republican (like that makes a difference) governor of GA called the legislators members of the Taliban (or something like that) because they wouldn't pass his massive tax increases so far this year.