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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: haqihana who wrote (219725)1/18/2002 9:35:23 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
your misconception that the usual taxes
No, yours was the misconception or attempted deception by implying that tax actions taken early in the country's history are not relevant because they aren't collected in exactly the same way that taxes are usually collected today.

As the country began, the dominate form of taxes was on commerce, especially import tarrifs. Then as now the actual form of the tax was based mostly on methods that could be reliably enforced and not on whether the activity was sinful. That distinction was a product of the temperance movement.

The fact is, the Federalist founding fathers, the ideological ancestors of the Republicans, felt that raising taxes to pay the debt was a good and prudent idea.
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