3 thoughts on “Which founding father said tax cuts are the path to prosperity?”
A federal government that confiscates more than 1/3 of an individual’s wealth was envisioned by no founding father ever.
How do you know? Did you know the founders intimately?
I mean seriously…..how many of the founders envisioned citizens being able to possess AK47 assault rifles?
I am intimately familiar with the writings of the Founding Fathers. Their views were not uniform with each other nor necessarily through time, but there are a number of similarities and cohesive principles among them – what constitutes good government and what constitutes being a good citizen. I’d disagree with you, FMSN, on your characterization of the founding fathers and taxation. You are assuming that the the Founding Fathers would find taxing more than a 1/3 of an individual’s wealth disagreeable. That idea doesn’t square with how they viewed taxation at all. I’ve posted something similar on another thread just recently: Paine and Franklin considered it appropriate to tax all wealth beyond that which allows for the “necessaries of life” to be put toward the common good. Jefferson advocated for exempting all but the wealthy from taxation and also considered “gripers” who didn’t wish to put forward their due toward public improvement, at the core, unpatriotic. As to which level of government is immaterial given how far from their vision of America and good government we have strayed. Immaterial given the Louisiana Purchase and all that it implied. The hatred of the federal government as a matter of principle expressed by Conservatives today simply does not echo Revolutionary or early American sympathies. Bear in mind that by the time of Jefferson’s death in 1826, the great American experiment was working phenomenally well in the North, but not in the South… well that’s just a long digression in the making, suffice it to say, I respectfully disagree, FMSN.
A federal government that confiscates more than 1/3 of an individual’s wealth was envisioned by no founding father ever.
How do you know? Did you know the founders intimately?
I mean seriously…..how many of the founders envisioned citizens being able to possess AK47 assault rifles?
I am intimately familiar with the writings of the Founding Fathers. Their views were not uniform with each other nor necessarily through time, but there are a number of similarities and cohesive principles among them – what constitutes good government and what constitutes being a good citizen. I’d disagree with you, FMSN, on your characterization of the founding fathers and taxation. You are assuming that the the Founding Fathers would find taxing more than a 1/3 of an individual’s wealth disagreeable. That idea doesn’t square with how they viewed taxation at all. I’ve posted something similar on another thread just recently: Paine and Franklin considered it appropriate to tax all wealth beyond that which allows for the “necessaries of life” to be put toward the common good. Jefferson advocated for exempting all but the wealthy from taxation and also considered “gripers” who didn’t wish to put forward their due toward public improvement, at the core, unpatriotic. As to which level of government is immaterial given how far from their vision of America and good government we have strayed. Immaterial given the Louisiana Purchase and all that it implied. The hatred of the federal government as a matter of principle expressed by Conservatives today simply does not echo Revolutionary or early American sympathies. Bear in mind that by the time of Jefferson’s death in 1826, the great American experiment was working phenomenally well in the North, but not in the South… well that’s just a long digression in the making, suffice it to say, I respectfully disagree, FMSN.