According to CBS News, Cliven Bundy told a Las Vegas radio station on Monday, “The founding fathers didn’t create a government like this.” I think Mr. Bundy may have forgotten his history. In 1794, President George Washington himself led the Army of the United States against some farmers in western Pennsylvania who refused to pay the new federal tax on whiskey. Tax collection at the point of a gun has been the norm from the beginning.
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Thomas Paine, writing from Philadelphia, February 14, 1776
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Constitutional confusion
According to CBS News, Cliven Bundy told a Las Vegas radio station on Monday, “The founding fathers didn’t create a government like this.” I think Mr. Bundy may have forgotten his history. In 1794, President George Washington himself led the Army of the United States against some farmers in western Pennsylvania who refused to pay the new federal tax on whiskey. Tax collection at the point of a gun has been the norm from the beginning.
when I was in school it was, if you don't like the law, work on getting it changed. Now it seems if you don't like the law, get the nuts to back you up. This guys been fighting the government for over 20 years.
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