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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (24001)	7/12/2000 11:48:31 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It was not accepted as such by the founding fathers -- you better go back and read your history. Hamilton and his cohorts engineered the federalist idea well after the Revolution. Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence called federalists traitors to the Revolution, and they were. One of the early taxes (an excise tax) that was assessed on whiskey caused a counter-revolution (the Whiskey Rebellion). Back in the 1700s and 1800s, taxes on a man's income -- the wealth he created -- was an anathema, considered a criminal idea and one of the things the Revolution was all about. It was not against King George or an excise tax on tea, but about the right of an individual to his own life, his own property and his own wealth that he himself created, WITHOUT ANY interference, intrusion or confiscatory action by a government, no matter how "benign." Taxes on personal income were never advocated by the founding fathers. Jefferson, Franklin and others would have been horrified at such a concept.