In another thread, pb, who, back in the day, minored, in college, in economics, pointed out that the US existed a century and a quarter before the Feds imposed the first income tax. And, the US thrived. It began that time as a no account union of 13 states. Those years concluded with the USA emerging as world power whose entrance into WW1 settled that war's outcome.
po's contribution to that thread, posted immediately after pb's comment, was, "So... according to Hate, they (GOPs) do in fact have to increase the debt in order to lower it. I'm glad that he's on record declaring it."
No.
For half of US history, we thrived without an income tax.
The point? The nation can raise revenue without taxing income.
The most extreme members of the progressive Swampcult today seem to think that the only way operate as a nation is to tax citizens with high incomes at draconian rates. Think Bernie and "Sandy" Cortez and, on SS, Indy and po, probably Donna and isle, too.
Ole pb merely points out that, factually,
historically, that's just not true. Period.
Governments, through most of history didn't tax income.
For example, from, say, 40 years ago until about the time The ONE entered the Oval Office, GOPs were promoting the idea of a Flat Tax, which is a variation on our income tax, and other outside-the-box means of raising government revenue. In fact, a significant faction of the GOPs who took over DC in Newt Gingrich's Contract with America election advocated forward thinking alternatives to the income tax.
Gang,
It's just the truth that freethinking and open-mindedness live on the political right and among GOP, which is the home of openness and inclusion, acceptance, tolerance, diversity and freethinking.
As po proves, thinking in new ways is sumpthin Dems and progressives can't and don't do in the 21st century.
Wise up.
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