Posted on 02/03/2024 4:29:04 AM PST by gattaca
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.That’s the second plank of communism, straight out of the Manifesto. And the Sixteenth Amendment inserted that piece of the Manifesto into the US Constitution, for no reason other than to subvert the Constitution as was planned by the commies even before the Manifesto came out.
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers.Of course, the National Reformers were replaced with the Democrats at first, and later the Republicans joined in fully.
— The Principles of Communism, #25
And then hit the TV so that the reception would stabilize.
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