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To: Who is John Galt?
Bottom line - the government is ready to kill your sorry @ss if you don't pay your taxes

Nothing new there. Ever heard of the Whiskey Rebellion? Happened during the Washington administration. The national gubmint, eager to establish its dominance, marched thousands of troops to the site of the rebellion, with Washington and then Hamilton riding at the head of the march, rounded up and imprisoned whoever they could find.

While the tax was supposedly supposed to help pay off the national debt (they had assumed the state debts from the war), Hamilton stated that the tax was ""more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue."

The Federalists, so loved by conservatives, were the big government taxers and social engineers of their era. They seem tame by today's standards, but back then, real conservatives OPPOSED them.

Bottom line: What is happening now is nothing new. It is merely the continuation of things set in motion in 1787.

165 posted on 02/04/2010 5:54:00 AM PST by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: Huck
The Federalists, so loved by conservatives, were the big government taxers and social engineers of their era. They seem tame by today's standards, but back then, real conservatives OPPOSED them.

So you're suggesting that the "real conservatives" were more in agreement with Mr. Jefferson & Mr. Madison, rather than the Federalists?

Just wondering...

;>)

169 posted on 02/04/2010 1:55:46 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: Huck

(And just pulling your chain - obviously... ;>)


171 posted on 02/04/2010 3:44:17 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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