To: Brian Griffin
In 1913, the leftists got their way The left you observe today didn't exist in 1913. Who, in 1913, would object to a 1% tax on income over $20,000 when the average income was less than $1,000 a year?
27 posted on
09/02/2017 11:03:04 AM PDT by
MosesKnows
(Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
To: MosesKnows
Who, in 1913, would object to a 1% tax on income over $20,000 when the average income was less than $1,000 a year?
Few would. But voters in the Northeast weren't that crazy for it because they were the people who had the most money. They saw it as a plot to take away their money.
28 posted on
09/02/2017 1:35:37 PM PDT by
x
To: MosesKnows
"
The left you observe today didn't exist in 1913."
Their writings from that time period prove otherwise.
31 posted on
09/02/2017 4:47:15 PM PDT by
ProgressingAmerica
(We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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