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Before 1913 Americans kept all of their income
X ^ | March 6 | @its_The_Dr

Posted on 03/06/2025 1:20:11 AM PST by RandFan

@its_The_Dr

Rep. Thomas Massie just reintroduced the “End the Fed” bill to abolish the Federal Reserve.


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I'm fascinated by this.

No income tax and No Federal Reserve yet America thrived and became the richest nation in the world. A truly gilded age and an industrial revolution.

How about that....

1 posted on 03/06/2025 1:20:11 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Great photo.

... and average literacy and math abilities far surpassed the ‘graduates’ of modern Federal education factories.

... and criminals hung


2 posted on 03/06/2025 1:32:18 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: RandFan

And the US population was about 80 Million, so larger than I was expecting.

Until we invent time machines, we all have to live in the age to which we were born, though. It’s easy to see nostalgia in a bygone era, too. They had yet to have our last two World Wars, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, FDR and a whole host of problems, too.


3 posted on 03/06/2025 1:38:16 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Have you ever seen the 8th grade test from back then? Can you imagine a test like this today for 8th graders? The left would be rioting........

https://headsup.scoutlife.org/would-you-pass-this-test/


4 posted on 03/06/2025 1:45:37 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: RandFan
And since 1913 an enormously complicated accounting system arose in large part to pay/avoid taxes.

What hypocrisy that the Federal Government appears to follow no rules of accounting when handling money.

5 posted on 03/06/2025 1:46:52 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

“What hypocrisy that the Federal Government appears to follow no rules of accounting when handling money.”

Why should they follow rules? It’s your freaking money, not theirs.


6 posted on 03/06/2025 1:55:23 AM PST by Equine1952
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Liz; metmom

Yes, thank you.

We owe McGuffey much credit for our early high literacy.


William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873), An American educator, was the president of Ohio University, professor at the University of Virginia and the department chairman at the Miami University of Ohio. He was responsible for forming the first teachers’ association in that part of the nation.

Considered the “Schoolmaster of the Nation,” McGuffey published the first edition of his McGuffey’s Reader in 1836. This was the mainstay in public education in America till 1920. As of 1963, 125 million copies had been sold, making it one of the most widely used and influential textbooks of all times. Millions of American children learned to read and write from that reader
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https://reformed.org/x_old_quotes/info_11-22-02.html


7 posted on 03/06/2025 2:16:33 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: RandFan

Thrived?

Pick up a history book....many, many people lived like animals.

Our military wasn’t close to the global power it is now.

AND SS didn’t exist..which swallows WAY MORE than it takes in.

Stop policing the world completely, stop paying SS...it was never put in a seperate account, that’s a lie....shut down NASA, NORAD and a billion other things we like but didn’t have in 1913.

You forget about having half a country to SELL to pay for things during the 1800s also...no, MORE than half a country.

Dreamers.


8 posted on 03/06/2025 2:18:31 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The year was 1957. We had to learn 100 times more than the 1913 class.

In 1913, they had one book. In 1957, we had a book for each subject.

9 posted on 03/06/2025 2:55:29 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RandFan

#TaxationIsSlavery


10 posted on 03/06/2025 2:56:13 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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It’s no coincidence that the income tax and Federal Reserve were implemented immediately after the last of the contiguous 48 states became part of the U.S. The growth model for a developed society is much different than it is for one that still has a frontier.


11 posted on 03/06/2025 3:20:35 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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Agreed!
The dam@ed income tax is terrible depressant on USA
It simply needs to be abolished
And replaced by something much simpler, easier, fairer, far less burdensome, lower much lower in amount, and free of abuse by those in power

Between fed and states taking a third of a worker’s income is outrageous no matter how the corruptoids do it.


12 posted on 03/06/2025 3:36:36 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RandFan

Agreed!
The dam@ed income tax is terrible depressant on USA
It simply needs to be abolished
And replaced by something much simpler, easier, fairer, far less burdensome, lower much lower in amount, and free of abuse by those in power

Between fed and states taking a third of a worker’s income is outrageous no matter how the corruptoids do it.


13 posted on 03/06/2025 3:36:36 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RandFan

End the Fed!
That’s what I’m talking about.
Count me as on board the defund train.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 3:47:16 AM PST by Recompennation
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Before 1913 we had no entitlement programs. Today the bulk of the federal budget is income transfer payments.

So it would be simple to get most of the way back to the pre-1913 night watchman state. Begin by abolishing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.


15 posted on 03/06/2025 3:51:06 AM PST by sphinx
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To: RandFan

We had much nicer architecture, too!


16 posted on 03/06/2025 3:52:29 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Alberta's Child
"It’s no coincidence that the income tax and Federal Reserve were implemented immediately after the last of the contiguous 48 states became part of the U.S. The growth model for a developed society is much different than it is for one that still has a frontier."

Maybe that is why Trump wants to annex Canada for a new frontier.... Just saying'. ;)

17 posted on 03/06/2025 4:49:04 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: RandFan; All

BTTT


18 posted on 03/06/2025 5:11:46 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Recompennation

Also, repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, end NATO, and the UN.


19 posted on 03/06/2025 5:27:50 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Recompennation

Also, repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, end NATO, and the UN.


20 posted on 03/06/2025 5:27:59 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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