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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

It's interesting to note that the change from Life, Liberty, and Property, to Life, Liberty, happiness was in part because of slavery. The founding fathers should have just stuck with LLP, and we'd have been much better off.

Also, we didn't have an income tax until WWII. Before that, corporations and counties built and maintained roads and infrastructure. The Federal Reserve didn't exist until 1913, prior to that the treasury department minted coins and made bills.

There were no property taxes until 1818, and in Texas until around 1979.

Cars didn't need registration or tags.

But now, everything has a fee.

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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

Maybe it is just because I have been under the weather the last few days, but it feels like we are approaching an inflection point, imminently.

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