Originally Posted By Mr X ***Next show, he'll explain how FDR hung around with known terrorists.*** ***Nazis K2M Nazis*** No, no. Not terrorists, nor Nazis. But he sure did pal around with a lot of COMMUNISTS echo echo echo...... <a href="http://www.b-29s-over-korea.com/God_Bless_America/images/Yalta-Conference1945-Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin-Wikipedia.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.b-29s-over-korea.co...edia.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X ECDC, Post number 12 is such an excellent observation I would recommend that you expand and publish it. Seriously. Perhaps a newspaper contribution or something.
Originally Posted By DAR It's arguable but just on the surface Teddy Roosevelt might have been the better of the two Roosevelt's.
Originally Posted By Mr X You mean Teddy Roosevelt the Socialist? The advocate of higher taxation for the wealthy? The federal income tax and estate tax guy, who targeted the rich most of all? Geez, DAR...didn't you just start a thread railing against this sort of stuff? Are you just schizophrenic or something? Or perhaps you're now realizing you voted for the wrong guy.
Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/10/teddy-roosevelt-socialist-advo.html" target="_blank">http://blog.beliefnet.com/stev...dvo.html</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like would be on a small fortune. No advantage comes either to the country as a whole or to the individuals inheriting the money by permitting the transmission in their entirety of the enormous fortunes which would be affected by such a tax; and as an incident to its function of revenue raising, such a tax would help to preserve a measurable equality of opportunity for the people of the generations growing to manhood.
Originally Posted By Mr X "No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar?s worth of service rendered?not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective, a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate." TR
