[central_va]

The world we live in has income taxes and they are not even close to the graft and corruption of the State legislatures during the time of the tariff.

You really are a socialist, perhaps a communists. You should be booted from posting on Free Republic IMO.

[arrogantsob]

Those describing reality are far from socialist or communists and, in fact, Ultra Patriots attempting to correct ideas which are dangerous to our nation.

Our attempts to force you to acknowledge the nature of the world are generally useless since you are wedded to an incorrect view of the way things are.

See “The Scarlett Woman of Wall Street” which completely backs up my description of the corruption common in past days. See Thurlow Weed, see George Washington Plunkett, see Boss Tweed, Boss Crump and more recently Richard Daley.

The world view of 1800 is long gone whether I like it or not, whether you like it or not.