“Will you tell me how to prevent riches from becoming the effects of temperance and industry? Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy intoxication extravagance Vice and folly?”
– John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, December 21st 1819
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“Well sure John, there’s this guy up in the future and all you have to do is figure out who his Great-Great-GrandMother-In-Law is, divorce Abigail and then marry JK’s future ex-wife. Easy peasy.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, December 25th 1819
Where’d the editing feature go Malcolm?
A punitive personal rate of total taxation at 50 percent. They’ll call it socialism and the people of America will delude themselves into thinking that they are free when in fact, they will be living in a socialist country where one half will garner some form of sustenance from gubmint. (They’ll spell it different then, they’ll be stupit.)
“A punitive personal rate of total taxation at 50 percent. They’ll call it socialism and the people of America will delude themselves into thinking that they are free when in fact, they will be living in a socialist country where one half will garner some form of sustenance from gubmint. (They’ll spell it different then, they’ll be stupit.)”