[MissAmericanPie]

"Would there have been endless propaganda streams trashing Washington as a statist? Would we have endless articles from Ye Olde Lew Rockwell demanding the abolition of the fledgling government?"

I would hope so, the tax was punitive and unfair.

[illstillbe]

I would hope so ...

The figurative cable lines would undoubtedly have been smoking ...

[William McKinley]

That it probably was.

But calls at the time for the abolition of the government were stupid.

Unless you are saying that Washington should not be remembered as a great President.