On 10/21/2013 05:18 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > > In India and China, poor people defecate in the streets and streams. > That is what people did in New York City in 1900, which is why they > had typhus and other diseases, just as they do today in the third > world. That is how we will live if we let the wealthiest among us > control the government and get away without paying taxes -- as surely > they will do if they can. Every wealthy class of people in history has > done this. Every wealthy class in the world today that can do this, > does it. > > - Jed >
Can you explain how getting rid of taxes will enable the poor to defecate in the streets and streams? Do you mean that the cities will not have money to run the sewer and water systems, and therefore, no water and sewer systems will be provided? If so, then that's an interesting assertion. The income tax wasn't even implemented until 1916, and this was a federal tax which didn't imburse local municipalities in any significant way until the 1970s. Which taxes on the wealthy do you think led America out of squalor? Craig
