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To: Grainne who wrote (42035)6/27/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Taxation of earned income was illegal, Christine. I am not brainwashed. And deduction of tax from paychecks was also illegal and pushed through as a temporary, emergency measure by Roosevelt during WWII. After the war the U.S. illegally kept it in place.

The U.S. was not the dismal hell you describe. Ha-ha! People all over the world were leaving everything behind to get here -- even their families.

FT