RE: Founding fathers view of government
March 19, 2021 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2021 at 9:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's more a coordinated lie than a personal tick or offhand falsehood of his own devising. It supports a political ideology best summed up by grover norquist
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
It's a revision of the past in service of a goal for the future. Deregulation, tax breaks. Thing is, all this time that we've been quietly happily and contentedly building a massive and powerful federal government, and using it strongly the whole while... taxes and regulations have swung back and forth wildly. We don't really need (and have never needed) a small government to accomplish the task. We'd plug along until the civil war, and tax nothing and damned near everything at different points along the way, until lincoln established the first federal income tax, and what would become the IRS. It lasted ten years - then it was dropped..and all the while we continued to grow our government to meet the practical challenges it faced.
There's never really been any disagreement, from the government, over giving more power to the government. It's truly bipartisan and always has been - but pretending otherwise is just another grift they've decided to run on their base.
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
It's a revision of the past in service of a goal for the future. Deregulation, tax breaks. Thing is, all this time that we've been quietly happily and contentedly building a massive and powerful federal government, and using it strongly the whole while... taxes and regulations have swung back and forth wildly. We don't really need (and have never needed) a small government to accomplish the task. We'd plug along until the civil war, and tax nothing and damned near everything at different points along the way, until lincoln established the first federal income tax, and what would become the IRS. It lasted ten years - then it was dropped..and all the while we continued to grow our government to meet the practical challenges it faced.
There's never really been any disagreement, from the government, over giving more power to the government. It's truly bipartisan and always has been - but pretending otherwise is just another grift they've decided to run on their base.
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