re: #180 HappyWarrior

All you need to do to shut them up about the 1913 meme is point out the size of our military that year. Or the fact that we resembled a third world country more then the the country we are today. I’ll second Oliver Wendell Holmes, I like taxes, with them I buy civilization.

That’s because most of those who love the 1913 meme have no fucking clue what life was like in this country in 1913. They grew up with everything that their grandparents and great-grandparents built and paid for and thus have taken it all for granted. So when the suggestion is made that we can make do without an income tax, they just assume that we can because we have everything already.