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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: not.history
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 14:43:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  3 14:43:08 1984
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I suppose that neither of you have taken a college-level history course.
I certainly remember seeing the inception of the income tax mentioned
in my HIST 201B text and hearing it discussed in class.  (And this was
at a publicly-funded university!)

Then again, it didn't seem like such a big thing, though I suppose
some of the priests of self-interest, one-issue politics think it
must be the most signifigant event of the millenium.  You know the
ones I mean: the ones who claim that the government ``steals at
gunpoint'' their hard-earned private property.  Or ones who claim
that public teachers have a conspiracy with the government to cover
up this larceny.

I think these people should put aside their childish hatred of
authority and spend a few years studying the history they claim
to be so mis-informed of.  After they understand some of the reasons
our society and our government are the way they are--something
besides the simplistic polemics found in a libertarian tract--
they'll be in a much better position to criticize the status quo,
and to *do* something about it.

		-Ed Hall
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