[sevry]

utterly destroying this country

So why wasn't the nation destroyed prior to imposition of the personal income tax? Why didn't the nation flounder prior to the advent of FDR-sized government, benefits and regulations?

[nopardons]

Please.....you already owe me far more than you can afford,for my educating you with historical facts ( which you chose to ignore! )and now you want even more? Get off line,go read up on this topic and then get back to me. I'll even give you a book list.

You can't debate here from abject weakness and no knowledge of a topic and expect that someone is just going to continue to bloody spoon-feed you.Debating you,is akin to debating a precocious 5 year old. Sorry,but that is neither pleasurable,not interesting.

But I'll be a bit kind and give you a quickly answer of sorts.........

This isn't the same nation it was in 1780,nor even 1880.People used to starve to death.People died at an early age. there were fewer people.There were roaming gangs of bums,numbering in the tens of thousands,who traipsed across this nation and leaving their families to starve at home,in the depressions of the 1870s and 1873-98.

Many ethnic groups formed social/philanthropic societies,which actually had programs ( unemployment insurance,pensions for widows and orphans,and burial costs ) that were replaced by governmental programs. None of that exists now.

You can't just eliminate something like Social Security,tomorrow,for example.THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!