Taxes And Slavery: A Parallel

"We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people."
-- Daniel Webster, in an address to the U.S. Senate, 1833
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"Republicans called for a decrease in the increase of slavery – much as modern Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan, never really wanted to cut taxes, but only decrease the increasing amount that is taken out of your paycheck each week. Reagan sponsored the largest tax increase in American history in a move which pleased the pro-tax bipartisan majority in Congress.

Present-day embryonic 'tea partiers' within the GOP are comparable to this 'free-soil' element within the party of yesteryear. They know something is not right about confiscatory taxes and run-away spending but have not quite worked out a comprehensive frontal attack strategy and systematic analysis of the problem.

Now if Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and all the rest of the South wanted slavery – fine. *Lincoln and the Republicans supported a constitutional amendment to permanently guarantee slavery in the South. In fact, this amendment passed the Congress, and was ratified by three states before the war began at Fort Sumter."

*HERE.

Via The Bonnie Blue Blog