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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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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: 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: 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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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.


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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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: RandFan; All

BTTT


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

Taxing income and property is BS.


22 posted on 03/06/2025 6:16:11 AM PST by Mlheureux
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Free Traitors™ are offended....Income tax over tariffs is their motto


24 posted on 03/06/2025 6:19:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan
How about this? Republicans of century ago knew right from wrong.

1924 GOP platform:

The Tariff

We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.

In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.

The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.

The enormous value of the protective principle has once more been demonstrated by the emergency tariff act of 1921 and the tariff act of 1922. We assert our belief in the elastic provision adopted by congress in the tariff act of 1922 providing for a method of readjusting the tariff rates and the classifications in order to meet changing economic conditions when such changed conditions are brought to the attention of the president by complaint or application.

We believe that the power to increase or decrease any rate of duty provided in the tariff furnishes a safeguard on the one hand against excessive taxes and on the other hand against too high customs charges.

25 posted on 03/06/2025 6:22:48 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States. Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries.[1] They also aimed to reduce the trade deficit and the pressure of foreign competition. Tariffs were one of the pillars of the American System that allowed the rapid development and industrialization of the United States.[2]
27 posted on 03/06/2025 6:26:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan

Yes thanks to Tariffs.


29 posted on 03/06/2025 7:07:13 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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