RINO Tom
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« on: June 23, 2015, 10:04:05 PM » |
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5 stars (proud Illinois Republican)!
Also, maybe socialist is the totally wrong claim (referencing Rockefeller GOP's post), but it IS truly funny when Southern neo-Confederates who'd probably describe themselves as "conservatives" 1) act like small government is inherently "conservative" and 2) act like the CSA was some sort of beacon for limited government and the power of the states. I took an advanced Civil War class last year, and I'll back up that the CSA was anything but the decentralized utopia it preached to want (as has been mentioned, Davis also suspended several civil liberties, and the CSA government raised taxes on its citizens and confiscate private property from its citizens for the war effort ... Not to mention the eerily USSR-style decision to outlaw any political parties). The CSA was definitely more "big government" during the war than the Union was, and it raised taxes much higher than Lincoln and his Congress did (let's not forget that Lincoln's "first income tax" was pitched as a wartime-only measure and actually expired once peace was won ... not to mention it was barely 3% of one's income).
Anyway, I can't reiterate enough: 5 stars.
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