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b_b  ·  4605 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy Birthday to one of the greatest minds the world has ever known...
This post, a pretty good, but slightly vitriolic discussion on the nature of capitalism and Jefferson. Sometimes the Founding Fathers become like gods; we all read their words and apply our own wisdom and interpret what they said to match our current ideology. There's no objective reading of history.




thenewgreen  ·  4605 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes. There it is:
    As to the Marx comparison, there are 10 pillars of communism. Progressive income tax is one, but it does not exist in a vacuum. To say that advocating a progressive income tax is akin to Marxism is very much along the lines of saying that anyone who thinks murder is wrong is Jewish, since Moses forbade it.