Posted on 07/30/2008 7:37:57 AM PDT by TitansAFC
That’s a fantasy of mine-—a large-scale protest, in the form of millions of Americans just refusing to pay taxes (FDR has a lot to answer for). But I’m pretty sure that it’s just a fantasy. For decades now, people have been indoctrinated into believing that paying any tax that the government slaps on us must just be paid, no questions asked. Relatively speaking, it hasn’t even really been that long that people didn’t even have to pay income tax-but now, people accept it as much as they accept being born and dying, as just a fact of life. I’m afraid that they would just pay this one too. We’ve come a long way, as individual citizens, from the days of our forefathers and the Boston tea Party and the kind of men it took to oppose a whole government. As long as they can have their American Idol, people just do what they’re told.
I did actually notice that in his quote. A slip up? Disturbing to say the least.
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